Peelin Orange

"[Early] poems talk to the later ones: there is a growth in the body of work which reflects the half-century changes in the politics of a rich, volatile culture, and the changes in a man advancing to his eighties. ... Themes recur: lust and love, family, creative epiphanies, and religion and politics play an inevitable role. Without taking sides, but always taking part, the poems dramatise conflicting elements in Jamaica's heritage."--Book flap.