Certifiable

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Publication Year:
2021

ISBN-13: 9781773102733

<p>Toronto writer Pamela Mordecai is a well-known voice in poetry of the Caribbean diaspora. She has long been a popular anthologist, a mentor to other writers, a frequent contributor to literary journals, and a vital link between the literary worlds of Canada and Jamaica; <i>Certifiable</i> presents a maturing vision of women&#39;s lives in both of her homes. <i>Certifiable</i> celebrates experience shot through with affection, family attachment, and madness.</p><p>The poems in the first section, &#34;Just a Likl Loving,&#34; explore the truths hidden beneath the ideal of love: love as comfort, love as currency, love as deathtrap. &#34;Sister Sequence&#34; embraces the fullness of sisterhood, from the conceptual &#34;sister muse&#34; as a power in the world to the ambivalent love among flesh-and-blood sisters. &#34;Certifiable,&#34; the final section, springs from intimacy with little and big madnesses.</p><p>The rhythms and rhymes of the creole soundscape crackle through <i>Certifiable</i>. Mordecai&#39;s deft hand wordplay flows through and beyond standard English and the Creole continuum to reveal the characters in <i>Certifiable</i> and record their experiences.</p>