Reading Annotation Blog #10

Reading Annotation Blog #10

"LYING IN THE TALL GRASSES,  EATING CANE "

This article is talking about how she became the writer/ poet through discovering through the Caribbean and African American writer. She is from Jamaica, by the time when she's back to the country, she started to observe the people in her country and their education. During her work, she talks about her mother language which is Jamaican. However, she feels like even though she has been writing for over twenty years; she doesn't feel like she is not perfect enough.

"They lived life with a robust intensity that tingled me to the core. I searched my mind for words, language with which to convey the intensity of their feelings, but believed myself to b sadly lacking. So I stored their stories in the recesses of my mind. " (185)

"I always suspected this history I was being taught was somehow erroneous or at best lopsided and suspect. ! didn't feel wrong or inferior, yet my education was telling me that even the way we Jaqiaicans spoke-was wrong." (185)

"Why did it take me eighteen years to discover them and then so far from home? From then on, I read avidly and tentatively began to seek out black writers in New York" (186)

 In many ways, I sense that the depth of my feelings borders on sickness; yet I am also painfully aware that this lover is as necessary as the blood that feeds my heart. (188)


Questions:

- What she means by first priority? " But I have never given writing first priority" (188)
- Who's her lover in poem?