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Ian McDonald's new collection, is a vivid and original sequence of poems which will add to this writer's widening reputation. The great Essequibo River, flowing through the mountains and green, deep forests of Guyana to the sea, inspires the poems. Incandescent natural beauty, and people of a wonderful variety who live in this magical region - their myths, history, adventures and simple stories - are reflected in a collection of poems certain to find a unique place in the literature of the West Indies and South America.
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Amerindian
Caiman Fever
The Card-players
Carib Bones
Death And Burial Of A Chief
Deep Pool
Dorothea At Work And Worship
Dream Island
Essequibo Riddle Song
Explorer
The Force And Beauty Of Wild Pigs
Forest Path, Nightfall
Half-man In A Storm
'hangman' Cory
Incident Past Midnight, Bucksands
It Is Good To Look Out On Great Rivers
Last Of Her Race
Last Voyage
Life And Death Tree
Manateuk Falls
Nightscape
The Poison-maker
River Grave
River Memories
The River-crossing Moths
The Satin Princess
Scholar
Snail Painting
A Stop By Cocoa Yard
The Sun Parrots Are Late This Year
A Trace Of Sugar
Trapped Agoutis
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ
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- PublisherStory Line Press
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0934257906
- ISBN 13 9780934257909
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages68
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