Author: Bonny, Peter Lionel
Title: The Goddess of Liberty. Reminiscences and Insights
Description: Brooklyn [NY], Courier Publications, 1994. orig.wrappers. 21x14cm, 60 pp.. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Poems & prose in French & English by a Haitian immigrant. "The Goddess of Liberty" presents the reader with a selection of poems based on reminiscences by the author and offers insights into the driving forces which have motivated him throughout his literary career. It describes episodes which took place during his adolescence and the psychological impact which these have had on his adult life. The intensity he felt then has rendered him highly skeptical - yet he has succeeded in portraying the Goddess of Liberty in a transcendent state and is unabashed in his acclamation of her serenity, grace and open-heartedness."; "Free intelligence, frank language, personal opinions, literature of liberalism; the writer invites the reader to explore the text Reminiscenes and Insights in some different contexts and perceptions in which meaningful readings can be explored in the light of modern literary criticism and theory" - rear cover.

Keywords: Haitian Literature, Haiti, Afro-Caribbean, Poetry, Caribbean, Immigrant, Immigrants, Immigration, Emigre