The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive: being dreamity, algoriddims, chants riffs [Paperback]

Douglas has a way of conveying the sense of wonder that powers the islands creative spirit. Some writers leave their creative handprints in dark caves where only later happenstance may, perhaps, discover them. Some writers stamp their entire selves upon the language, upon the culture, upon literature and upon our consciousness in so intimate, singular, well-illuminated and indelible a manner that there can be no mistaking their poems and prose for those of another. Such a writer is Marcia Douglas. Marcia Douglas lets the sounds fall from on high, in prose that chants down Babylon and confirms the coming, sweeter than can be reckoned, of Zion. The women in Marcia Douglass books are proud women: they are the descendants of Queen Nanny, the Maroon chieftain who, according to legend, could catch the bullets of the British soldiers between her teeth. the adventurous and immersive latest from Douglas, continues the authors fusion of poetry and prose with a nonlinear tale combining an escape from slavery in 18th-century Jamaica and immigrant life in 2010s America& 'Time and space are twin,' Douglas writes, and as she develops this idea in passages that alternate from prose to verse, the novel takes on a trancelike quality. The authors originality is on full display in this challenging and rewarding work. The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive?is munificent and expansive in its approach  arcing narratively over past, present, and future in cosmic wonder. . .Douglas infuses every riddim, reverberation, and pulse of this work with music, magic, long-time knowing, and ancient power. As the title indicates,?