Reena
This is a collection of short works by the author. Her muses, he tells us, are "the poet of the kitchen," West Indian immigrants like her mother who spent their days "scrubbing floor" for white housewives and then came home and talked away all silence, spinning language into richly patterned quilts. Invisible by race and sex, these women "fought back, using the only weapon at their command: the spoken word." Like her muses, Paule Marshall lives in language; she retells the world in order to make it new.
Reena
This is a collection of short works by the author. Her muses, he tells us, are "the poet of the kitchen," West Indian immigrants like her mother who spent their days "scrubbing floor" for white housewives and then came home and talked away all silence, spinning language into richly patterned quilts. Invisible by race and sex, these women "fought back, using the only weapon at their command: the spoken word." Like her muses, Paule Marshall lives in language; she retells the world in order to make it new.
