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Middle Passages

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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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.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811212327

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Ancestors

A Reinvention of Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/self

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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A Reinvention of Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/self

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811214486

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Black + Blues

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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Black + Blues

By: Kamau Brathwaite

A collection of poems includes Fetish, Totem, Caliban, Springblade, Bread, Xango, and Koker.

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Elegguas

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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Elegguas

By: Kamau Brathwaite

Kamau Brathwaite is a major Caribbean poet of his generation and one of the major world poets of the second half of the twentieth century. Elegguas—a play on "elegy" and "Eleggua," the Yoruba deity of the threshold, doorway, and crossroad—is a collection of poems for the departed. Modernist and post-modernist in inspiration, Elegguas draws together traditions of speaking with the dead, from Rilke's Duino Elegies to the Jamaican kumina practice of bringing down spirits of the dead to briefly inhabit the bodies of the faithful, so that the ancestors may provide spiritual assistance and advice to those here on earth. The book is also profoundly political, including elegies for assassinated revolutionaries like in the masterful "Poem for Walter Rodney." Throughout his poetry, Brathwaite foregrounds "nation-language," that difference in syntax, in rhythm, and timbre that is most closely allied to the African experience in the Caribbean, using the computer to explore the graphic rendition of nuances of language. Brathwaite experiments using his own Sycorax fonts, as well as deliberate misspellings ("calibanisms") and deviations in punctuation. But this is never simple surface aesthetic, rather an expression of the turbulence (in history, in dream) depicted in the poems. This collection is a stunning follow-up to Brathwaite's Born to Slow Horses (Wesleyan, 2005), winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819571008

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9780819571007

Born to Slow Horses

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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Born to Slow Horses

By: Kamau Brathwaite

Winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize (2006) Kamau Brathwaite's Born to Slow Horses is a series of poetic meditations on islands and exile, language and ritual, and the force of personal and historical passions and griefs. These poems are haunted, figuratively and literally, by spirits of the African diaspora and drenched in the colors, sounds, and rhythms of the islands. But they also encompass the world of the exile and return, and the events of 9/11 in New York City. Brathwaite is one of the foremost voices in postcolonial inquiry and expression, and his poetry is densely rooted and expansive. Using his unusual "sycorax" signature typography and spelling, Brathwaite brings a cultural specificity, with distinct accents, sonic gestures, and pronunciations, into his pages—making them new, exciting, and rich in nuances.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819580554

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9780819580559

Words Need Love Too

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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Words Need Love Too

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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 early work had been as much about celebrating connection and the possibilities inherent in the Caribbeanâe(tm)s rediscovery of its African heritage as it had been concerned to chronicle the barbarities and hurts of the process of cultural alienation that made such a rediscovery necessary. In terms of the prevailing tone of Brathwaiteâe(tm)s later writing that optimistic moment may be short lived but Words Need Love Too serves as an important reminder of the emotional and spiritual range of this great Caribbean poetâe(tm)s work.

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Salt Pub

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1876857498

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9781876857493

The Lazarus Poems

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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The Lazarus Poems

By: Kamau Brathwaite

A mystical masterwork This book by the great Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite is characteristically sui generis, vatic, and strange, exhibiting ornery bravura. Tonally and typographically frenetic in the 'sycorax video style' he's been employing for decades, the work examines a major theme appropriate to a great poet in the late stages of his career: that of the afterlife. Brathwaite performs a kind of spiritual/aesthetic GPS in his poetry and is is a poet of undeniable stature, writing the final poems of his career. Central to the book is a series of poems outlining the speaker's (the poet's) experiences with what he calls "Cultural Lynching." These poems speak of appropriation, theft, isolation, and exploitation, all within a context of an American hegemony that intensifies the racial politics and ageism underlying the events described. The speaker's pain and outrage are almost overwhelming. Filled with longing, rage, nostalgia, impotence, wisdom, and love, this book is moving in every sense of the word.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819580171

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9780819580177

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Dreamstories

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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Dreamstories

By: Kamau Brathwaite

The startling new work by internationally celebrated Caribbean poet, historian and cultural theorist Kamau Brathwaite, winner of the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811216934

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Ancestors

A Reinvention of Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/self

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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A Reinvention of Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/self

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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.

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Born to Slow Horses

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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Born to Slow Horses

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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Elegguas

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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The Zea Mexican Diary, 7 Sept 1926-7 Sept 1986

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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The Zea Mexican Diary, 7 Sept 1926-7 Sept 1986

By: Kamau Brathwaite

In May of 1986 Edward Kamau Brathwaite learned that his wife, Doris, was dying of cancer and had only a short time to live. Responding as a poet, he began "helplessly & spasmodically" to record her passage in a diary. Zea Mexican is a collection of excerpts from this diary and other notes from this period of the Brathwaites' lives, and few who read this book will fail to be caught up in the depth of Edward Brathwaite's grief. Zea Mexican is a tribute to Doris Brathwaite and an exploration of the creative potency of love. (The title comes from the name Brathwaite gave Doris, who was originally from Guyana of part Amerindian descent.) Exposing the intimacy of his marriage, this book is the closest Brathwaite has ever come to an autobiographical statement. In examining his life with Doris he found the courage to reveal something of his own character. But, more than an autobiography, Zea Mexican is an extraordinary work of literature, much of it written in the expressive "nation language" of Jamaica and the Caribbean. Brathwaite filters his pain through his poetic gift, presenting it to the reader with all the poignancy poetry conveys.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299136442

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9780299136444

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Dreamstories

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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Dreamstories

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The startling new work by internationally celebrated Caribbean poet, historian and cultural theorist Kamau Brathwaite, winner of the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize.

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Black + Blues

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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Black + Blues

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A collection of poems includes Fetish, Totem, Caliban, Springblade, Bread, Xango, and Koker.

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Middle Passages

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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Middle Passages

By: Kamau Brathwaite

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The Bright Nights and Drumbeats from Mama Africa

The Bright Nights in the World of the Mentally and Physically Handicapped

By: fatha John Patrick Kamau

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The Bright Nights and Drumbeats from Mama Africa

The Bright Nights in the World of the Mentally and Physically Handicapped

By: fatha John Patrick Kamau

For years war and at times preventable scenarios have taken life, maimed others, crippled yet others mentally, physically and intellectually, if not spiritually, The T4 program, PTSD and all.... worldwide. For the authors generation, The 1970's brought in cholera, the 1980's brought in the AIDs/HIV scare, and then the unholy beverages, .... not without pioneering conspiracy theories to back them up Mayan.... illuminati conspiracies, Georgia guide stones and all types of fantasy. Would there be any survivors? The 20th century was dominated by ethnic, race, political and religious struggles and conflicts; the 21st century has vastly inherited the problem with a huge shift in attitude and preference, but in all this, what is the future for Persons with Disabilities in a world of alternative lifestyles, eugenics, euthanasia, acclaimed United Nations human rights and conventions? sequel to "The Bright Dark Nights Of The Soul" book - (2013) script, the author a recipient of the "Pro Ecclesia" gold medal award from the late Saint Pope John Paul II avails for posterity diaries and points for reflections on cultural and humanitarian perspectives impacting on aspects of existential crisis, search for meaning and purpose for persons with Disabilities deeper into the 21st century. With contributions and insights from Corporate social responsibility initiatives, scholars, clergy, custodians of persons with disabilities, persons who lived in the 19th and 20th century in Africa: Some who served in the American Peace Corps in 1960's Africa, encounters with so called - "natives" and "savages", War Veterans and members of the armed forces, multicultural religious and missionary icons, contemporary peace and outreach initiatives from international religious, secular and political leaders: Towards this end, a case study paper in the United States on a Disabilities outreach project in Africa is availed in Six language translations, French, Spanish, Portuguese, English and the Luo and kikuyu African Languages to hopefully stimulate further multicultural reflections and action in the diaspora communities towards persons with disabilities.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499070462

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9781499070460

Conversations with Nathaniel Mackey

By: Kamau Brathwaite,Nathaniel Mackey

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Conversations with Nathaniel Mackey

By: Kamau Brathwaite,Nathaniel Mackey

Literary Criticism. African American and Caribbean Studies. Kamau Brathwiate's CONVERSATIONS WITH NATHANIEL MACKEY is based on the transcript of his discussion with Nathaniel Mackey at Poet's House in New York City. Brathwaite expansively elaborates on Mackey's (and audience member's) knowledgeable inquiries; his answers are layered with subsequent ruminations arising from his lifelong engagement with world literature and expressive cultures. A multiphasic drift, CONVERSATIONS WITH NATHANIEL MACKEY combines elements of biography and autobiography with poetic discourse on Caribbean literary history and negative effects of colonial domination. Brathwaite splices dialog with poetry, criticism, and instrictive imaginary voices in his now distinct and characteristic Sycorax 'video style' format. Both Brathwaite and Mackey have several titles carried by SPD. Mackey's ERODING WITNESS is newly available, along with WHATSAID SERIF (City Lights) and DJOBOT BAGHOSTUS'S RUN (Sun & Moon) Brathwaite's BLAC

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0966897609

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9780966897609

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