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The Art of Kamau Brathwaite
Kamau Brathwaite won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1994. The Art of Kamau Brathwaite is a ground-breaking book in which leading commentators on Black and Caribbean writing explore and discuss all aspects of Brathwaite's work as poet, historian, and cultural archivist. Brathwaite provides a 'proem' on cultural dislocation, and is the subject of an interview. The international list of contributors includes Gordon Rohlehr, doyen of Caribbean critics, Glyne Griffith, Nathaniel Mackey from America, Ted Chamberlain from Canada, and Louis James, Anne Walmsley and Bridget Jones from Britain.
Words Need Love Too
Words Need Love Too represents both a summation âe" a drawing together of concerns that the poet has explored in his writings through the previous âe~years of saltâe(tm) âe" and a turning point, a hopeful new beginning. With hindsight we can already see the shadow of events like âeoenine elevenâe âe" which happened when Brathwaite was in New York, living only blocks away from the World Trade Centre âe" that inevitably drives the poet and his writing back into explorations of the dread spectrum.But for the optimistic epithalamium moment of âe~Words Need Love Tooâe(tm) the visionary celebration of poems like âe~Agoueâe(tm) again seems both possible and important to this poet whose ...
Ancestors
Offers a revised edition of Brathwaite's Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/Self poems which explore the author's family and childhood in Barbados and his experiences with slavery and colonialism.
Black + Blues
A collection of poems includes Fetish, Totem, Caliban, Springblade, Bread, Xango, and Koker.
Middle Passages
Kamau Brathwaite's poetry offers stunning collages devoted to the history, mythology, and language of the African diaspora, and has gained him a world reputation. Middle Passages, his most recent collection, is his sixteenth poetry volume, but his first with an American publisher. With notes of protest and lament, the fourteen poems of Middle Passages address the effects of the Middle Passage of slavery on the New World, and celebrate great musicians (Ellington, Bessie Smith), poets, heroes of the resistance, and Third World leaders Kwame Nkrumah, Walter Rodney, and Nelson Mandela. And as the London Times Literary Supplement noted, it is "a poetry that moves between rage and tenderness, doubt and displacement to affirmation... Middle Passages is a potent and effective book, a work of passion and integrity."
Born to Slow Horses
New work by the co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement.
The Arrivants
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Trench Town Rock
Poetry. African American Studies. Caribbean Studies. "Typeset in Brathwaite's trademark Sycorax video-print style, TRENCH TOWN ROCK is a harrowing account of violence in modern-day Jamaica. TRENCH TOWN ROCK, Kamau Brathwaite's long documentarian song, affords insistent 'nansic spin a splay of clips, massed facts and faces, rare synaesthetic call and cry rolled into brash typographic distraint." Nathaniel Mackey"
History of the Voice
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Strange Fruit
"In its title, Strange Fruit refers to the song of a lynching made famous by Billie Holiday and to the malign persecution that drove Kamau Brathwaite from his New York home to resettlement in his native Barbados. But the title also points to the enigma of beauty created out of that experience of cultural lynching, in poems of urgency, elegance, wisdom and brave humour. ... It is a collection full of beauties of form, phrase and sound, such as in the poem “Sleep Widow” where instead of finding comfort, the poet and loved woman “bull-fight like lock-horm logga-head until the evening pools the grief along our edges/ and cools us to this peace”, the very sounds in the poem fighting their way towards resolution."--Back cover.
