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(More customer reviews)This is the latest to hit the presses from the active poetical language of Jamaica from the spokesman of the Caribbean area. In it, he uses the jargon and dialect of those inhabitants and plays around with words. You wouldn't call him 'laconic' (sparing of words, terse, concise), but his seven features in this volume might be deemed 'concomitant' (existing or occurring concurrently).
He introduces some of us to the 'kimina' ritual, ghosts of slavery past, 'Osini' myth, Isaac's sacrifice ('compunction': remorse, uneasiness caused by guilt), surveying the islands and their coastlines from the air, and his extended family ('kismet': fate, destiny and fortune) which we all need in this global world today. He seems to have a 'yen' (a yearning, longing) for his old life and maintains a home in CowPastor, Barbados.
Edward K. Brathwaite is a long-standing member of the board of directors of UNESCO's 'History of Mankind' project and the subject of many articles about him and his art in 'World Literature Today' and 'Utopian Studies' about his "dream stories." He has taught at Yale, Harvard and is currently a professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. He was the recepient of both the Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships. He has quite a following and two of his earlier books are ANCESTORS and MIDDLE PASSAGES.
Emily A. Williams wrote THE CRITICAL RESPONSE TO KAMAU BRATHWAITE (2004) and there is also available A DESCRIPTIVE, CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF (1950-1982) WORKS by this most poetic, prolific writer who is proud to represent his part of our world.
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