Opal Palmer Adisa's Reviews
Reviews of Opal’s Work
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Feb.19.2012
Published by The Sunday Observer
Powerfully encased in honours to the Orishas, womanist poet and scholar Opal Palmer Adisa has offered a big book about three strains of blackness in the diaspora –...
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Published by The Caribbean Writer
Writer’s Tongue
Opal Palmer Adisa, I Name Me Name. Leeds, England: Peepal Tree Press. 2008. p.b. 222 pages. £9.99.
Opal Palmer Adisa, the author of 11 books, adds to her...
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Published by Caribbean Beat, Issue 19
How a writer became herself
DAVID KATZ
Always writing from a place where the personal and political intertwine, Opal Palmer Adisa has used various literary forms throughout her...
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Mar.02.2008
Published by The Jamaican Gleaner
Opal Palmer In love with Mr Write
published: Sunday | March 2, 2008
Barbara Nelson, Contributor
Opal Palmer Adisa is in love with writing. Her first stories, she says, were...
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Mar.02.2008
Published by The Jamaica Gleaner
Opal Palmer In love with Mr Write
published: Sunday | March 2, 2008
Barbara Nelson, Contributor
Opal Palmer Adisa is in love with writing. Her first stories, she says, were...
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Jul.05.2009
Published by BookEnds, The Observer, Jamaica
Title: I Name Me Name: Poetry and Prose by Opal Palmer Adisa.
Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2008. 222 pages.
Reviewed by: Mary Hanna [2pics: I...
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I have known love, smelled it first dripping from his eyes, tasted it on his lips, and when our fingers clasped, I knew it was a living thing that would never let go of me...Opal Palmer Adisa”
About Opal
Diverse, innovative and multi-genre, Opal Palmer Adisa is an exceptional talent, nurtured on cane-sap and the oceanic breeze of Jamaica. Charismatic and informed, Adisa’s concerns span the gamut from children to the environment, and as such there is hardly...
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Causes Opal Adisa Supports
California Poets in the Schools
Homeless Shelter for Pregnant Women