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lauren_endnotes's review against another edition
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Afua Cooper's COPPER WOMAN is a collection from 2007 that blends biographical poems with imagined histories of her birthplace in Jamaica.
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"Will they remember that I can from a rural womb
where as an infant I was rocked to bed by the laughter
of rivers that flowed beside our house
Or that I was surrounded by graves of ancient ancestors
and one in particular sat on her grave every morning and waved at me
and I would say 'Morning'"
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• Excerpt of "Biography"
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"Will they remember that I can from a rural womb
where as an infant I was rocked to bed by the laughter
of rivers that flowed beside our house
Or that I was surrounded by graves of ancient ancestors
and one in particular sat on her grave every morning and waved at me
and I would say 'Morning'"
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• Excerpt of "Biography"
earlgreybooks's review against another edition
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So glad I managed to find this one after reading Cooper's book [b:The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal|1046669|The Hanging of Angelique The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal|Afua Cooper|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328807995l/1046669._SY75_.jpg|1033095] (loved seeing a poem about Marie-Joseph in there as well!) Now to try and find all of Cooper's other books too.
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