This Strange Land
by Shara McCallum
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“[In This Strange Land] McCallum crafts a world filled with marvelous ideas about the everyday reality of urban Jamaica, a world of contrasts in which romance and protest make strange bedfellows, where ‘‘beauty and violence lie down together.’”
—Review: Literature of Arts of the Americas, Issue 86, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2013, 160-161
“McCallum’s new poems mark a terrific quantum leap in maturity, complexity, and depth. [This Strange Land] appears to be a determined fusion of past and present, of general and personal history, towards a collective memory that would encompass us all.”
—Michela A. Calderaro
“This Strange Land poignantly and appropriately begins with ‘Psalm for Kingston,’ a poem that calls out to a violent city and its resilient inhabitants. The voices of Kingston . . . are brought up and left to fade into the fabric of the verse . . . It is a fitting way to introduce a book that is in search of what feels almost lost and yet ever-present.”
—Thom Dawkins, Weave Magazine
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