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Explores the critical responses to Kamau Brathwaite's Anglophone Caribbean poetry written from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword Chronology Introduction 1960s Poetry: Rights of Passage (1967), Masks (1968), Islands (1969) 1970s Poetry: The Arrivants (1973), Black & Blues (1976), Mother Poem (1977) 1980s Poetry: Sun Poem (1982), Jah Music (1986), The Visibility Trigger (1986), X/Self (1987) 1990s Poetry: Middle Passages (1992), Barabajan Poems (1994) 2000s Poetry: Words Need Love Too (2000), Ancestors (2001) Reflections of a Life Interview Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

EMILY ALLEN WILLIAMS is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Morehouse College. She is also the author of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970-2001: An Annotated Bibliography (Praeger, 2002).

Reviews

?Born in Barbados in 1930, Lawson Edward Kamau Brathwaite has produced more than 20 volumes of poetry in the last 40 years. This entry in the "Critical Responses" series is the first devoted entirely to the collection and analysis of critical reactions to Brathwaite's poetry. Williams offers a selection of perceptive essays divided by decade (1960-2000) and written by numerous critics, covering Braithwaite's principal works. Topics of imagery, vocabulary, musicality, nature, travel, exile, African heritage, and magical realism are addressed. The volume also includes an introduction, a chronology, a chapter titled "Reflections of a Life," and Williams's insightful interview with Brathwaite....Essential. All collections supporting Caribbean literature, history, and culture; all levels.?-Choice

"Born in Barbados in 1930, Lawson Edward Kamau Brathwaite has produced more than 20 volumes of poetry in the last 40 years. This entry in the "Critical Responses" series is the first devoted entirely to the collection and analysis of critical reactions to Brathwaite's poetry. Williams offers a selection of perceptive essays divided by decade (1960-2000) and written by numerous critics, covering Braithwaite's principal works. Topics of imagery, vocabulary, musicality, nature, travel, exile, African heritage, and magical realism are addressed. The volume also includes an introduction, a chronology, a chapter titled "Reflections of a Life," and Williams's insightful interview with Brathwaite....Essential. All collections supporting Caribbean literature, history, and culture; all levels."-Choice