She says the loose and playful Patois poems resonate just as strongly for today’s generation. She recalls three girls of Jamaican descent in a Grade 1 class she taught who memorized Miss Lou’s poem ...
The poet Louise Bennett Coverley (1919–2006), a seminal figure of the Caribbean diaspora, is portrayed as a child who loves the melodious and creative lilt of Jamaican patois, the dialect her mother ...
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