Austin Clarke
Born
in St. James, Barbados
July 26, 1934
Died
June 26, 2016
Website
Genre
![]() |
The Polished Hoe
21 editions
—
published
2002
—
|
|
![]() |
More
15 editions
—
published
2008
—
|
|
![]() |
Pig Tails 'n Breadfruit
6 editions
—
published
1999
—
|
|
![]() |
Choosing His Coffin: The Best Stories
2 editions
—
published
1965
—
|
|
![]() |
The Meeting Point
4 editions
—
published
1998
—
|
|
![]() |
Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
7 editions
—
published
1980
—
|
|
![]() |
The Origin of Waves
6 editions
—
published
1997
—
|
|
![]() |
Four Stations in His Circle
|
|
![]() |
The Bigger Light
4 editions
—
published
1975
—
|
|
![]() |
’Membering
7 editions
—
published
2015
—
|
|
“In my mother's book, a vegetarian is somebody who is not concern with his or her diet and health. "Someone who prefer bush and grass, as if they is sheeps and cows, is somebody who don't have enough food to put in his mouth," she always say.
Only vegetarians eat dryfood regularly—and like to eat it, too. It is not considered normal for a person to cook food that doesn't have some amount o' meat or fish to go with it. Only someone who is starving, who don't have money to buy a fish head or a single flying fish or even the head of a dolphin—in other words, a person who is "catching his arse"—has to eat dryfood. A person at this stage is a person one remove from having to cook bakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.”
― Pig Tails 'n Breadfruit
Only vegetarians eat dryfood regularly—and like to eat it, too. It is not considered normal for a person to cook food that doesn't have some amount o' meat or fish to go with it. Only someone who is starving, who don't have money to buy a fish head or a single flying fish or even the head of a dolphin—in other words, a person who is "catching his arse"—has to eat dryfood. A person at this stage is a person one remove from having to cook bakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.”
― Pig Tails 'n Breadfruit
“but here I am, in this study that looks across a road well travelled in the rushing mornings to work, and hardly travelled with such anxiety and intent during the hours that come before the rush to work, walked on, and peed on, by the homeless, and the prostitutes and the pimps, and the men and women going home to apartments in the sky, surrounding and overlooking Moss Park park, as I like to call it. Moss Park park is where life stretches out itself on its back, prostrate in filthy, hopeless, bouts of heroism and stardom, for these men who lie on the benches and the dying grass, are heroes to themselves and to one another,”
― 'Membering
― 'Membering
“This backwards journey in the narrating of this ’membering, this remembrance, is a lesson I learned from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and which considers how language, in this case, English, the only language I know, is at present of profound interest, when used in a non-traditional manner. I have used this language in The Polished Hoe, and I call it many things, but the most precise definition I have given it is contained in a booklet published by the Giller Prize Foundation, celebrating the tenth anniversary of this literary prize. In that review of the literary problems I faced in the writing of The Polished Hoe in 2002, my main concern was to find a language, or to more strictly use the language I already knew, in such a way that it became, in my manipulation of it, a “new” language. And to explain the result of this experiment, I said that I intended to “creolize Oxford English.”
― 'Membering
― 'Membering
Topics Mentioning This Author
topics | posts | views | last activity | |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Seasonal Read...:
![]() |
2589 | 1049 | Feb 28, 2011 09:05PM |