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The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive: being dreamity, algoriddims, chants & riffs
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The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive: being dreamity, algoriddims, chants & riffs
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Zooming into tight focus on present-day life and dashing deep into the past in turns, the pace is fast and fierce in
, which continues Marcia Douglas’ “speculative ancestral project” (The Whiting Foundation) begun with
. Her new poetic and eco-spiritual book carries further the cultural preservation so central to Douglas’ vision.
brings alive a mosaic of characters—all searching through history for something or someone lost to the island: a mother searches for her missing child through time and space; an undocumented migrant’s struggles with loss while living in the US; a youth wanders through dream-gates seeking liberation and the lost parts of himself. And one key to the whole is Zora Neale Hurston’s left-behind camera. Each chapter/poem opens like an aperture onto another aspect of the dream story. And, each and every potent dream story contains the spirit, beauty, and riddim of Jamaica: