Inkle and Yarico Ruth Christie Sacred Poetry from Around the

Sacred Poetry from Around the World

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His essays and articles are collected in From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills (University of Wisconsin Press)

Inkle and Yarico Ruth Christie Sacred Poetry from Around theAs a young man of twenty, Thomas Inkle sets out for Barbados to inspect the family sugar estates. On the way he is shipwrecked on a small West Indian island inhabited by Carib Indians. He alone escapes as his shipmates are slaughtered, and is rescued by Yarico, a Carib woman who takes him as, 'an ideal, strange and obliging lover.' So begins an erotic encounter, explored with poetic, imaginative intensity, which has a profound effect on both. Amongst