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She Who Sleeps with Bones

Tanya Shirley

In this insightful collection of poetry that brims with self-deprecating honesty and sexual frankness, themes of spirituality and gender relations are explored through topics such as the death of friends and relatives, the anxiety of being a foreigner in another country, the peril of unrequited love, the importance of size in sexual play, and the premonition of tragedy. With a deft handling of syntax, these thought-provoking epiphanies on the human condition and haunted memories are full of earthy sensuality and celebratory humor that are rooted in the everyday details of living, loving, fearing, laughing, and hoping.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
  • Publish Date: Jun 1st, 2009
  • Pages: 77
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.20in - 0.40in - 0.25lb
  • EAN: 9781845230876
  • Categories: • Caribbean & Latin American

About the Author

Tanya Shirley is an award-winning poet and educator. She lectures in the department of literatures at the University of the West Indies as well as a fellow of Cave Canem, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. Her work has appeared in The Caribbean Writer, New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology, and Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism.