Difficult Fruit

by Lauren Alleyne

Book Overview

A collection of poems about coming into self-knowledge--of fighting for and winning personhood as a woman in the world--this offering from Trinidadian poet Lauren Alleyne grapples with personal experience. The poems form a lyric memoir of the author's life, chronicling a journey that includes coming to terms with violence and loss, celebrating love and connection, and standing witness in the world that shaped that journey. The central poem, "Eighteen,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845232275
• ISBN13: 9781845232276
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.9"