Reviews for Caribbean Women Writers

The average rating for Caribbean Women Writers based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-02-20 00:00:00 Fara Nicholas I loved this book! I read an excerpt of her essay "How to Create a Poetic Tradition" online and was hooked. This book contains that essay and many more. "The Body of Poetry" has a premise that will fascinate both genders: that "the poem's body has come to be despised by literary culture." Her short essay (or rather, almost a checklist) "Omniformalism: A Manifesto," is something every poet should read (and probably post above his/her desk). In it, she suggests that every poem should have physicality, permeability, structure, kinship, continuity, and mystery, and explains these beautifully. As Finch is an accomplished poet, this is some of the most beautiful literary criticism you'll ever read.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-04-02 00:00:00 Al Wier An enormously useful and wise collection of practical criticism that, over the course of the book, suggests a persuasive and well-considered thesis about how the metrical code, sometimes "ghost", inhabits and drives a poem. Her primary examples and explications are from her own and other women's poetry (including a really wonderful essay on Maxine Kumin's "Looking for Luck"), hence the title, but her aesthetic generally sets the definition of most free verse poetry in relief in clarifying ways. I do not know Finch's poetry, but am encouraged to seek it out.