Education
Born in Gayle, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, the youngest of three children of Doctor William T. Escoffery, medical officer, and his wife Sylvia, Escoffery attended Street Hilda"s High School, Brown"s Town.
(A vivid cast of characters throng these poems. There is M...)
A vivid cast of characters throng these poems. There is Mother Jackson, the ole hige who lays out her thoughts like a mortician, who is both creator and destroyer. There are the players of the Rootsman Theatre of the Absurd, such as fallen politician Julian Lapith, who knows too well the power of incantation; Dub Deacon Lapith with his Sankey soul; poor Bedward Lapith with his millenarian dreams of flight; Busha Godhead self swoopsing down to intervene in human affairs and - the heroine of the cast - Aliveyah, to whom nature speaks direct by the nudge of a beak. And there is, of course, their creator, Miss G.E., who shares with us the 'rockstone passion of a Jamaican country bumpkin born and nurtured in Arcadia'. Whether in her celebrations of domestic happiness in a house where even the chairs talk, or in her satires on Jamaican life, Gloria Escoffery writes with a visionary intensity and fantastical imagination which is all her own. And though she feels it is no joke to be three people - old woman, young girl and child - who don't quite understand one another, Miss G.E. cannot but write her love letter to the world.
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Born in Gayle, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, the youngest of three children of Doctor William T. Escoffery, medical officer, and his wife Sylvia, Escoffery attended Street Hilda"s High School, Brown"s Town.
Having held her first solo exhibition in Kingston in 1944, Escoffery exhibited extensively in Jamaica and elsewhere.
In 1942 she won the Island Scholarship and went to McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and subsequently studied in England at the Slade School of Fine Arts (1950-1952), and the University of the West Indies"s School of Education. In 1977 she was awarded the Order of Distinction and the Silver Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica in 1985.
(A vivid cast of characters throng these poems. There is M...)