These poems come from a special recording for the Poetry Archive:

• 1 -
  "I am Becoming My Mother"
  
  
• 2 -
  "Guinea Woman"
  
  
• 3 -
  "For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength)"
  
  
• 4 -
  "Nanny"
  
  
• 5 -
  "Letters to the Egyptian"
  
  
• 6 -
  "The Road of the Dread"
  
  
• 7 -
  "Tamarind Season"
  
  
• 8 -
  "Songs for My Son"
  
  
• 9 -
  "My Will"
  
  
• 10 -
  "The Mulatta as Penelope"
  
  
• 11 -
  "'Mine, O Thou Lord of Life, Send My Roots Rain'"
  
  
• 12 -
  "Keith Jarret - Rainmaker"
  
  
• 13 -
  "'I shall Light a Candle of Understanding in Thine Heart Which Shall Not Be Put Out'"
  
  
• 14 -
  "This is a Hymn"
  
  
• 15 -
  "Heartease I"
  
  
• 16 -
  "Heartease II"
  
  
• 17 -
  "To Us, All Flowers are Roses"
  
  
• 18 -
  "After the Green Gown of My Mother Gone Down"
  
  
• 19 -
  "My Mother's Sea Chanty"
  
  
• 20 -
  "Heartease New England 1987"
  
  
• 21 -
  "Recommendation for Amber"
  
  
• 22 -
  "On Becomming a Tiger"
  
  
• 23 -
  "Turn Thanks to Miss Mirry"
  
  
• 24 -
  "To Mr William Wordsworth, Distributor of Stamps for Westmoreland"
  
  
• 25 -
  "Aunt Rose's Honey Advice"
  
  
• 26 -
  "Morning, Morning Angel Mine"
  
  
• 27 -
  "Farewell Wild Woman"
  
  
• 28 -
  "Island Aubade"
  
  
• 29 -
  "Ode to the Watchman"
  
  
• 30 -
  "The Wandering Jew and the Arab Merchant on the Island of Allspice"
  
  
• 31 -
  "Passing the Grace Vessels of Calabash"
  
  
• 32 -
  "So Who Was the Mother of Jamaican Art?"
  
  
• 33 -
  "Rites"
  
  
• 34 -
  "Controlling the Silver"
  
  
• 35 -
  "Bam Chi Chi La La: London 1969"
  
  

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