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Annotated by:
- Donley, Carol
- Date of entry: Jan-04-1995
- Last revised: Oct-06-2015
Summary
The son narrator of this poem has asked his Jamaican physician-father a number of questions. His father is a great healer, saving thousands of his countrymen through medicine, surgery, and preaching. Although the "Queen receives him in London and gives him the Empire", his father knows how useless that is, and "puts the British Empire into a drawer of memories." All that London pomp and ceremony is a different world from Kingston, "Smoldering under the weight of tin and grease." The father's vision is of "Jerusalem, a black city full of his sons."
Primary Source
First Photographs of Heaven
Publisher
Nightshade
Publisher
Nightshade
Publisher
Nightshade
Publisher
Nightshade
Publisher
Nightshade
Publisher
Nightshade
Publisher
Nightshade
Publisher
Nightshade
Publisher
Nightshade
Publisher
Nightshade
Publisher
Nightshade
Publisher
Nightshade
Place Published
Troy, Maine
Place Published
Troy, Maine
Place Published
Troy, Maine
Place Published
Troy, Maine
Place Published
Troy, Maine
Place Published
Troy, Maine
Place Published
Troy, Maine
Place Published
Troy, Maine
Place Published
Troy, Maine
Place Published
Troy, Maine
Place Published
Troy, Maine
Place Published
Troy, Maine
Edition
1994
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1994
Edition
1994
Edition
1994
Edition
1994
Edition
1994
Edition
1994
Edition
1994
Edition
1994
Edition
1994
Edition
1994
Edition
1994