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In a vision which constantly sees the 'doubleness' of people, places and things, Earl McKenzie both confronts such experiences as the discovery that the very same 'farmers / who sing on choirs' are those who became a lynch mob and beat a passing stranger to death, and celebrates the rich variousness of a landscape and a people who 'fear the straight line / for it is as rigid as death'.

McKenzie's poems speak directly and without pretension, but in their often quirky observations and ability to find resonant images from the everyday, they are arresting and memorable.

"The particular images from nature that inform his work, along with his keen insight into human hearts, make Against Linearity a book to cherish."
The Caribbean Writer

Earl McKenzie was born and lives in Jamaica. In addition to Against Linearity he is the author of A Boy Named Ossie and Two Roads to Mount Joyful & Other Stories.

Against Linearity

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In a vision which constantly sees the 'doubleness' of people, places and things, Earl McKenzie both confronts such experiences as... Read more

    Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
    Publication Date: 01/06/1993
    ISBN13: 9780948833632, 978-0948833632
    ISBN10: 0948833637

    Number of Pages: 60

    Fiction , Poetry

    Description

    In a vision which constantly sees the 'doubleness' of people, places and things, Earl McKenzie both confronts such experiences as the discovery that the very same 'farmers / who sing on choirs' are those who became a lynch mob and beat a passing stranger to death, and celebrates the rich variousness of a landscape and a people who 'fear the straight line / for it is as rigid as death'.

    McKenzie's poems speak directly and without pretension, but in their often quirky observations and ability to find resonant images from the everyday, they are arresting and memorable.

    "The particular images from nature that inform his work, along with his keen insight into human hearts, make Against Linearity a book to cherish."
    The Caribbean Writer

    Earl McKenzie was born and lives in Jamaica. In addition to Against Linearity he is the author of A Boy Named Ossie and Two Roads to Mount Joyful & Other Stories.

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