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A review by lauren_endnotes
Copper Woman: And Other Poems by Afua Cooper
4.0
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"