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Kumina Queen Paperback – August 1, 2016

by Monica Minott (Author)
5.0 5.0 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
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Monica Minott’s host of witnesses are women who are collectively grounded in ritual and spiritual understanding, practical, sensible – though, like all of us, flawed in their humanity. Her poems draw on the enduring cult/culture of Jamaican womanhood in the sites that they command and in which they are empowered. This is not a context of gender separation. The sensuality and sexuality of her poems operate in zones where the male force is not to be excluded, but recognised as a presence, even when negative or oppositional, that helps to define female energy and power. In Minott’s poetry, sex is sweet, sex is to be welcomed, though men are expected to be sensitive readers of women if they are to be allowed in. Some men, though, are seen to be discombobulated by the sexual power of women whose sensuality is earthy and grounded in the landscape she inhabits.
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    72 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
  4. Publication date
    August 1, 2016
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.2 x 8.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1845233174
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1845233174
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About the Author

Monica Minott is a chartered accountant. She has received two awards in the Jamaican National Book Development Council’s annual literary competitions for book-length collections of her poetry. Monica Minott was awarded first prize in the inaugural Small Axe poetry competition. Her poems have been published in The Caribbean Writer, Small Axe Caribbean Journal, Cultural Voice Magazine, SX Salon, Jubilation, Coming Up Hot and The Squaw Valley Review, and more recently in BIM magazine. Some of her poems have been broadcast on Power 106 in Jamaica.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Peepal Tree Press Ltd. (August 1, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 72 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1845233174
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1845233174
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.35 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.2 x 8.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    5.0 5.0 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars Color in a World of Blacks & Whites
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2016
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There is nothing more quintessentially Jamaican than pure intellectual spice. Minott's offering, Kumina Queen, leaves the artistic palate craving more. Kumina Queen is, no doubt, a regal rendering of life experienced in common spaces: love, meditation, cries, politics, ecstasy and even romps find themselves between these sheets (of paper). Minott, as it were, bares it all and leaves nothing untouched, even the questions themselves are questioned. This poetic anthology is sure to bring the reader an intimate (if not illicit) love affair with pregnant ideas and the cultural wellspring from which they were birthed.

As the title intimates, Kumina Queen manages to marry two extreme ends of the spectrum: finding surreal magic in life's real crowning moments. It is here that Minott discovers discoveries. The raw emotionality and frank, unencumbered talk poses only one challenge -- it imagines a world of worlds not too far away from that place we call home. Kumina Queen is a mirror cast deep into the corners and crevices of our hidden conscience, forcing us to reflect. Dare we look, we may find the familiar face of uncertainty peering back at us.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Kumina Queen - Declares Triumph
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2016
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The thread throughout Monica Minott’s collection of lyrical-story poems is ‘Triumph’’. The context is historical as it provides guidance on how to snatch success from the jaws of defeat, against all the odds; as in “Fire De a Muss-Muss Tail” or “Dockside”. This Collection of poems is evocative as it is aspirational capturing the sorrows, the sufferings and the pain of what it is to be woman in post-slave-emancipation societies; and shows the way to hold on to the shredded memories of things African – a way of overcoming trials and tribulations as in “Dead Children are Dead”, “Sister Bernice” or in the title poem. The poems in the Collection "Kumina Queen", are likely to cause smiles, reflection and may even jerk some tears, as they gives us meaning, strength and hope for the future. In addition to being thought provoking, it is a thoroughly enjoyable Collection.
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