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Redemption Rain—May
2011
Engaging with a broad range of human experience and concerns,
Redemption Rain invites the reader into its profound epiphanies
through patient revisitation and introspection. Rahim’s voice
weaves the explosive power of her lively Trinidadian Creole with
the searching intensity of one given to appreciating memory’s
redemptive light. This is a book about the necessary and the
unexpected; about costly arrival in the sacred spaces of realization
and recognition. Always the impulse is to praise. Hers is a
voice that does not shrill but invests in the finer sensibilities of
justice, beauty, love, and community to bring out her poetic
truth.
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"Redemption Rain provides a tenderly perceptive yet penetratingly
measured depiction of the contemplative’s path on which spirituality,
history, culture, and ecology congregate in unambiguous
communal celebration. . . Here then is a poetry that speaks directly
to our sense of human belonging, our recognition of smallness
within vastness, our experiential encounters with love and loss."
—S Rose-Ann Walker, The University of Trinidad and Tobago
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Jennifer Rahim is the author of three volumes
of poetry, Mothers Are Not the Only Linguists
(1992), Between the Fence and the Forest (2002),
and Approaching Sabbaths (2009), and a collection
of short stories, Songster and Other Stories
(2007). Approaching Sabbaths was awarded the
2010 Casa de las Américas Prize for best book in
the category Caribbean Literature in English or
Creole. Rahim is a senior lecturer in literature at
the University of the West Indies, St Augustine,
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