Redemption Ground : Essays and Adventures (Paperback)

In her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied her working life: her love of poetry and the arts, colonialism and its legacy, racism and social justice, authenticity, and the enduring power of friendship. Taking its title from one of Kingston’ s oldest markets, Redemption Ground introduces us to a vivid cast of characters and remembers moments of epiphany— in a cinema in Jamaica, at New York’ s Bottom Line club, and as she searched for a black hairdresser in Paris and drank tea in London’ s Marylebone High Street. Enlightening and entertaining, these essays explore not only daily challenges but also the compassion that enables us to rise above them. They confirm her as a major figure in world literature.