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    Jamaican Roots

    By Joseph Edwards

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    Jamaican Roots is a book of poems to enrich and sooth the heart and mind of anyone wishing to learn about that beautiful Caribbean island. It offers a new mix of poetry using the Jamaican culture to temper and bring out the ideas, words and expressions of the young poet. All the poems were carefully written and one can relate to them wherever you find yourself in the scheme of life. Although Jamaica is the source, there is an instant of global flair interlaced in some of the pieces. Just about anyone can relate to them. Take this journey with me, and see Jamaica through my eyes, learn the language, be amazed by the talent of the natives, and be reminded of exploits and conquests then and now.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoseph Edwards
    Release dateApr 21, 2014
    ISBN9781310956232
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    Jamaican Roots
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    Joseph Edwards

    Joseph Edwards is currently a final year student of the International University of the Caribbean located in Kingston, Jamaica. He grew up in the parish of St. Catherine, and is a lover of the English Language. Expressions in writing has been second nature to him from a very tender age and poetry is just one way of sharing his thoughts with the world.

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