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The Land of Look Behind: Prose and Poetry - Michelle Cliff
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"...Each dream, poem, prose poem, imaginary conversation, essay, and observation in this book carves new shapes and forms for subjects the king's English resists: "The Laughing Mulatto (Formerly a Statue) Speaks," "If I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire," "Europe Becomes Blacker." Each is colored by memories of her life as a Caribbean woman with African roots; each piece speaks its truth through patois—her mother tongue—with the king's English gracefully, pungently, and purposefully strip-mined for meaning..."
(J.L., p. 48)
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