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- W290465695 abstract "A REVIEW OF A DANGEROUS KNOWING: FOUR BLACK WOMEN POETS BY BARBARA BURFORD, JACKIE KAY, GRACE NICHOLS AND GABRIELA PEARSE (LONDON: SHEBA FEMINIST PUBLISHERS).This book is a gift.In these days when the Black woman's voice is being choked down under the guise of budget cuts and suitable for a broad [white] audience, it is no less than a miracle that A Dangerous Knowing: Four Black Poets made it onto the bookstore shelf at all. In fact, this volume celebrates itself as the first anthology of the poetry of four British-based Black feminist writers. Full of the unhindered and startling imagery of Barbara Burford, Jackie Kay, Grace Nichols and Gabriela Pearse, A Dangerous Knowing stands as testimony to the depth of Black feeling and the complex power inherent in Black love.The poetry of Barbara Burford is lyrical and meant to be read out loud. Her sounds are like a walk through soft brush, as in Other:For you are the salmon leaperin my headlong flood. Stretching, flashing.The deep undershimmer of my still riverbottom.The smooth pebblecool in my desert mouth.Closely linked to this steady sensuality are her unmatched indignation in Nth Day Of Christmas and her loneliness for a baby lost in Christine. Burford's sense of fun and adventure shows in such lines as:Down offa my perch.Runnin' on all fours,a rose between my teeth.Down -- Looky here!in State Of The Art. Her strong bond with women and to herself is apparent in her Women Talking:And we are mistressesof strong, wild air,leapers and soundersof depths and barriers.The magic of her poetry is in the way she handles the subtle yet so-important relationship between sound and imagery.Jackie Kay was born in Scotland and her voice is assertive and irreverent, as in So You Think I'm A Mule?:I have to tell you:take your beady eyes offa my skin;don't concern yourself withthe dialectics of mixtures;don't pull that strange blood crapon me Great White Mother.Kay's feminism is keen and rampant in her lines, but not to distraction. In Happy Ending she muses:Maybe Rapunzelgets rescued by awoman firm of muscleand strong of heartwho takes the scissors outafter dinner and saysYou could use a hair cut...and then ends with:Whilst we lie onthis solid bedwe make our own stories.showing the value she places on self-determination and strong community. The power of women does not elude her in Sky Changes Every Second Now:...that ancient Black Womanwaiting withinfor me to call herlet her out to roamabout my hopes and fears...but the sense in tragic death does elude her. Jackie Kay says in And I Still Cannot Believe It:I awoke this morningcrying for youreaching out to hold youdesperate for movementfor time to stretch our possibilitiesfor hours to let a sprinklingof our dreams takerootKay's word-music is rhythmic in Remi but impacts like glass. …" @default.
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