Among them, 'Intersection' by Danielle Legros Georges, Tom Daley's 'After a Stroke, My Mother Addresses Children in a Photograph of a Sidewalk in Port-au-Prince,' and 'Earthquake' by Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell deserve a special mention, as the most innovative in their imagery and emotional thrust.
[10]Life in Haiti, before the recent earthquake but no less steeped in hardship and spiritual overcoming, is captured in interconnected stories by a gifted Haitian American.
In sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes sharply ironic fashion, Phipps-Kettlewell writes of coping in a place where the lush surroundings are a constant reminder of how removed from paradise people are.
But as sad as the stories can get, the author's empathy for her resilient subjects, and her grasp of the human comedy in depicting the creative ways downtrodden people keep hope alive, makes the book unexpectedly entertaining.
Brilliantly evocative contemporary stories about Haiti ...[11]In contrast, one can, and does, find pleasure in Marilene Phipps's first full-length collection of poems, Crossroads and Unholy Water.