An homage to this poem tells its author, “I swear my dead mother / embraced me. I then washed off my heart with the amniotic water of a green coconut.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Una Marson’s poem “Nostalgia” opens, “I will arise and go again to my fair Tropic” in reference to what W. B. Yeats poem set in a “small cabin… of clay and wattles made” with “nine bean-rows” and a “bee-loud glade”?
ANSWER: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
[10m] Una Marson was from this modern-day country, the birthplace of a writer who vowed in a sonnet that “Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack.”
ANSWER: Jamaica [or Jumieka] (The sonnet is Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die.”)
[10h] In her homage to “Innisfree,” this poet imagines swapping “Dark tales of Maroon warriors” and “bush comrades of Cuchulain” with Yeats. This former poet laureate of Jamaica wrote Tamarind Season and I Am Becoming My Mother.
ANSWER: Lorna Goodison [or Lorna Gaye Goodison] (The homage is “Country Sligoville.”)
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