"I don’t know that the writers are aware enough of the rural. I mean, there’s nature, they will talk about the blue skies and they’ll talk about the roses, but—my models, which are deeply embedded in the soil, I’m not sure I see anybody else doing that. Because I’m a rural child, I understand these things, I want to understand them. So my metaphors will tend to be coming out of agriculture. (2015)"
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Erna Brodber
Erna Brodber (born 20 April 1940; Woodside, Jamaica), is a writer, sociologist and social activist. Her sister Velma Pollard was also a writer.
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