Poetry
Belizean Flavour
Leo Bradley · 1991
Synopsis
A collection of sixty-eight pages that mixes poems and stories. It includes a morning prayer, a melody of the mango and a song to the beloved country, and a short story, “The Way of the Bridge”, which follows Jackie Dean, a seventeen-year-old boy born in Belize City, a dreamer whom his family judges too absent-minded; the story sets the way of the bridge, by which one crosses the waters of life, against the way of the river. The book was published in Belize, by Spear Press.
Context
The book appeared in 1991 in Belize, ten years after independence. Its author was then an established poet and short-story writer, and one of the best connoisseurs of the country's history; he had also published essays on Belizean literature and history and a collective collection, Among My Souvenirs. Four years later, Jackie Dean's short story was included in Snapshots of Belize, a short-story anthology published by Cubola. The headquarters of the Belize library service bears his name.
Who it is for
A short collection in English, poems and stories mixed together, for those looking for the voice of a Belizean man of letters of the independence generation.
Prizes and reception
One of his short stories was included in 1995 in an anthology of Belizean fiction.
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