Poetry. African American Studies. Caribbean Studies. Engaging with a broad range of human experience and concerns, REDEMPTION RAIN invites the reader into its profound epiphanies through patient revisitation and introspection. Rahim's voice weaves the explosive power of her lively Trinidadian Creole with the searching intensity of one given to appreciating memory's redemptive light. This is a book about the necessary and the unexpected; about costly arrival in the sacred spaces of realization and recognition. Always the impulse is to praise. Hers is a voice that does not shrill but invests in the finer sensibilities of justice, beauty, love, and community to bring out her poetic truth.

Author City: St. Augustine TRI

Jennifer Rahim is a critic, poet, and short-story writer. Her creative publications include four volumes of poetry—Mothers Are Not the Only Linguists (1992), Between the Fence and the Forest (2002), Approaching Sabbaths (2009), and REDEMPTION RAIN (2011)—and a collection of short stories, Songster and Other Stories (2007). Approaching Sabbaths was awarded the 2010 Casa de las Américas Prize for best book in the category Caribbean Literature in English or Creole. She is also a co-editor of two collections of essays, Beyond Borders: Cross Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon (2009) and Created in the West Indies: Caribbean Perspectives on V. S. Naipaul (2010). She is a senior lecturer in literature at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.