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    Tears of the Drum: A Tears by the Gallon Collection
    Tears of the Drum: A Tears by the Gallon Collection
    Tears of the Drum: A Tears by the Gallon Collection
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    Tears of the Drum: A Tears by the Gallon Collection

    By Jeffrey B-Izzaak

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    Ive become stagnated between the desire for progress and a longing toward regression. In a land of limbo, like a dangerous situation.
    Rapsheets, the Deleted Exclusions, 2016




    Grenadians [and Kayaks] need to know the truth about the past in order to be reconciled presently and for the future.
    Truth & Reconciliation Commission Report, 2006



    It is a bit ironic that the substantial potential of heritage assets on Carriacou remain unappreciated. Today, tourism has replaced cotton as Carriacous primary industrial product. Yet, there seems to be no credible plan for preserving and leveraging heritage asset for use in this new industrial base.
    A Case for Saving Carriacou, 2011



    This land that belongs to no one. Men believe that they have dominion, but they do not. The people here only borrow it, so that there would be somewhere to rest their bones when they die.
    Gudruns Saga
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateApr 24, 2017
    ISBN9781524685683
    Tears of the Drum: A Tears by the Gallon Collection
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    Jeffrey B-Izzaak

    Jeffrey Izzaak was born and lives in Carriacou.

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      Tears of the Drum - Jeffrey B-Izzaak

      AuthorHouse™

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

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      Phone: 1 (800) 839-8640

      © 2017 Jeffrey B-Izzaak. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 09/06/2017

      ISBN: 978-1-5246-8570-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5246-8569-0 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5246-8568-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2017904717

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      The Island has a most beautyful appearance, and conveys the idea of one continued garden, finely diversified with hills and deep narrow Slacks, or Glens, interspersed with natural clumps of wood, whose soil has not been thought worthy of cultivation, which serve not only to ornament the face of the Country but likewise afford Shelter to the surrounding fields.

      Visitor to Carriacou Sept 25th 1787

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      View toward Carriacou South from Belle Vue North, 2014.

      From wattle and daub to the erection of concrete balusters. My tears spread like sheeted rain over your acres.

      Tears by the Gallon

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      Aerial view of Hillsborough town, bay and environs (undated)

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      Hillsborough and its environs, 2017

      Other books by the author:

      Poetic Duty I- Coming From Carriacou (2013)

      Poetic Duty 1.5: Without Definition- A Kayak in Englan’ (2014)

      © Copyright, Jeffrey Brathwaite-Izzaak 2017

      The Drum Cry for CARRIACOU:

      The drum, cry out in sorrow. The drum, cry out yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The drum exalts our joys, soothes our desperation, and keeps alive our celebrations.

      How I crave your feeling, your every sense engaged, without reliance on these feeble efforts to depict, convey and transport you through. How I wish you could see the inhabitants and taste our emotions, pay attention to our conversations and appreciate the landscape in which this drama is cascading-unfolding. Take a glimpse of the invasion, the divisions.

      How I wish I was a painter, and every stroke was a revelation, telling you the story, that would touch you, evoke your spirits; make you see Carriacou as it was in my eyes, and that of others, in this year- just before and thereafter?

      ‘This is a place to be discovered

      This is the Last Frontier.

      All others conquered

      Soon, the last bastion would fall

      So we can hoist the flag

      To our ancestors;

      Intrepid explorers.

      As for the locals

      (We brought them here; to Aborigine and Maori there is no compare!)

      They’ll remain dazed

      Crazed

      Bearers of our umbrellas

      And carriers of our litters…’

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      Copy of 1784 Map of Carriacou

      Contents

      Drum 1.    Bula

      Drum 2.    Cut’

      Drum 3.    ‘Lacatan’

      Tears In America And From D’ Usa

      Carriacou Chiffone (Breakaway)

      DRUM 1

      Bula

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      © The Grenada Handbook

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      SUNDAYS, CIRCA 1980’s

      B

      There was Sunday mornings

      Fireside, wood fire smoking

      Yard fowl overnight in the pot cooking

      Sunday morning

      Cousin Veda dressing

      Pulling up her stockings

      The radio, Joseph Niles^ singing

      Gospel music people tuned in

      After the Revolution#

      Evolution slowly come in

      The faithful stop church-going

      Unfaithful, but still wanting a blessing

      Waiting, demanding

      Now the days are not the same again

      Nah

      Can’t hear Cousin Dear Me*

      under the mango tree

      So much love, so many darlings

      The place overgrown

      Now cows on the loose are the ones camping

      Is a new- ism

      Wireless express

      Religion advertising

      Catch Jesus on the wire

      To wash away your sins

      Log on

      Log in

      Ride the board bus

      Or just walking

      Father Anglican giving confirmation lessons and communion

      New dispensation for the slave children

      Take up the practice in profusion in the West by adoption

      Not inheritance

      Too late now to take the opposite stance

      Sunday mornings are not the same

      Again

      ^ Barbadian

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