Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom takes the reader on a journey of light, from the flicker of the firefly in rural Jamaica, through the half-moonlight of the limbo of exile in the USA to the point of arrival and reconnection imaged by the eight-pointed star.
It is also a journey of the voice, traversing back and forth across the Atlantic and across continents, pushing its way through word censors and voice mufflers and ending in tongues of fire.
In making this book a Poetry Book Society recommendation, its selector commented: "Marcia Douglas has the kind of intent but relaxed concentration which ushers the reader into the life of a poem and makes hte event--a wedding, a hot afternoon, an aeroplane journey--seem for a while like the centre of things. This is a rich and very welcome book."
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