One Day, One Day, Congotay Sue Kindon I don’t see so much

I don’t see so much of the girl –

essayist and poet — and this selection from her collection Between the Cloud and the Pit (1999) spans her poetic output from the 1960s to the millennium

Central books: that is

This is an important and revealing anthology

One Day, One Day, Congotay Sue Kindon I don’t see so muchMerle Hodges rare achievement is to create a dynamic portrait of the life of an unquestionably good woman: Gwynneth Cuffie, teacher, lover of children and music, and pillar of her community. Though devastated by tragedy in her politically militant youth, Gwynneth never gives up the struggle against colonialism on the Caribbean island of Cayeri. Her triumph is to find a way between the aspirations of her wounded father, whom colonial education has