Poetry
Bahamian Scene
Susan J. Wallace · 1970
Synopsis
Poems written in the speech of the Bahamas, with a spelling that follows pronunciation, on island life, the town of Nassau, family and traditions. One meets village figures there, such as old Zeke, and hears a prayer. The author presents these texts as authentically Bahamian; they appeared in a revised and illustrated edition, and were reissued more than half a century later.
Context
The collection appeared in 1970 in the United States from Dorrance, in a revised and illustrated version of sixty-four pages. The author subsequently produced an anthology of Bahamian plays, poems and prose, then another collection of poems, before turning to religious books. Google Books lists it under both poetry and literary criticism, and a recent reissue has put it back into circulation.
Who it is for
Short poems in Bahamian speech transcribed according to pronunciation, which are best read aloud.
Prizes and reception
Together with the Bahamian anthology she published afterwards, it is one of the two books by the author that her readers know best.
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