Pamela Mordecai
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Born
in Kingston, Jamaica
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May 2014
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Red Jacket
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2015
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4 editions
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Pink Icing and Other Stories
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published
2006
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3 editions
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Her True-True Name (Caribbean Writers Series)
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published
1989
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de book of Mary
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published
2015
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Subversive Sonnets
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published
2012
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2 editions
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Sunsong 3
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published
1988
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3 editions
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Sunsong 2
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De Man: A Performance Poem
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1995
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Jamaica Woman: An Anthology of Poems
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1982
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2 editions
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de book of Joseph
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“When I write, regardless of what I’m writing, or how I approach the writing task, I’ve got this image or shape or feeling inside me somewhere, a sort of embroidery pattern, a sort of magic-pencil outline, a sort of distant melody." — Pamela Mordecai”
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“maybe she should take out a book and read, for it don’t make no sense to just lean against the shop front, doing nothing, and she start to search in her bag, when she hear Pansy shout, “Lord Jesus! Oh God, help me!” Pansy bawling for help louder and louder, so Grace get frighten. She drop her schoolbag, run quick into the shop, and push on the door to the back room with all her might. After a couple tries, it fly open. Staring at her are one pair of feet with brown socks, one pair of feet with no socks, four legs with no covering and Mortimer’s bare bottom rising and falling with a motion that remind her of when he was using the saw. Grace look, turn right around, march out, pick up her school bag, and start walking home. First she is furious with Pansy, but then she start to laugh. Mortimer have a nice body, but he is short. Pansy is a good-sized girl. Grace remember Gramps say, “Tiny insects pollinate sizeable flowers,”
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“Then he started his period.
One week in bed.
Two doctors in.
Three painkillers four times a day.
And later a letter to the powers-that-be
demanding full-paid menstrual leave twelve weeks per year.
I see him now,
his selfish pale face peering at the moon
through the bathroom window.
The curse, he said, the curse.
- Mrs Tiresias”
― The World's Wife
One week in bed.
Two doctors in.
Three painkillers four times a day.
And later a letter to the powers-that-be
demanding full-paid menstrual leave twelve weeks per year.
I see him now,
his selfish pale face peering at the moon
through the bathroom window.
The curse, he said, the curse.
- Mrs Tiresias”
― The World's Wife































