Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The triumph of bad and cool (1974) -- Erotica! (1975) -- If mammies ruled the world (1975) -- Pam Grier (1975) -- The Labelle hustle (1975) -- Last of the black white girls (1976) -- Jamaica Kincaid's New York (1977) -- Antigua crossings (Fiction) (1978) -- Ovando (Fiction) (1989) -- Athol Fugard (Interview by Jamaica Kincaid) (1990) -- The finishing line (Fiction) (1990) -- Foreword to 'Babouk: Voices of Resistance' (1991) -- On seeing England for the first time (1991) -- Biography of a dress (1992) -- An Antiguan election journal (1994) -- Christmas pictures from a warm climate (1994) -- Introduction to 'The Best American Essays, 1995' -- The little revenge from the periphery (1997) -- Introduction to 'Generations of Women' (1998) -- Introduction to 'My Favorite Plant' (1998) -- Introduction to 'Poetics of Place' (1998) -- Looking at Giverny (1998) -- Those words that echo... echo... echo through life (1999) -- Islander once, now a voyager (2000) -- Sowers and reapers (2001) -- Her best friend provokes her to write about her garden (2002) -- Splendor in the glass (2002) -- The garden of the year just passed (2002) -- The lure of the poppy (2002) -- Gardening (2003) -- Living history in Vermont (2003) -- Desert blooms (2004) -- Jumby Bay (2004) -- Introduction to 'The Best American Travel Writing, 2005' -- Formal meets folly (2005) -- Foreword to Ian Frazier's 'Gone to New York' (2006) -- Captain's farm (2006) -- Foreword to Alexandre Dumas's 'Georges' (2007) -- Dances with daffodils (2007) -- Her infinite variety (2008) -- The estrangement (2009) -- Lack, Part two (2009) -- Tide (2011) -- Introduction to Simone Schwarz-Bart's 'The Bridge of Beyond' (2013) -- The kind of gardener I am not (2018) -- The walk to Robert Frost's house (2019) -- A letter to Robinson Crusoe (2019) -- I see the world (2020) -- Inside the American snow dome (2020) -- I was never really making a garden so much as having a conversation (2020) -- The disturbances of the garden (2020) -- Acknowledgments

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