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DS
Kamau Brathwaite
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Description for DS
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
In DS (2)—Dreamstories 2—Kamau Brathwaite continues his ongoing collection of prose poems, comprised of the broken images, flow, and half-told stories of dreams. The poetic stories in DS (2) use Brathwaite's trademark sycorax video style, offering personal revelations mixed with political and historical fables occurring around the globe. Brathwaite's prose poems relate with ardency and pathos the Caribbean experience and are a potent voice of the African diaspora. Nathaniel Mackey wrote: "Kamau Brathwaite's 'calibanic play' reveals a fiendish delight in the slippage to which words are prone." And American Book Review wrote: "In its rhythms as well as its explorations ... Read more
In DS (2)—Dreamstories 2—Kamau Brathwaite continues his ongoing collection of prose poems, comprised of the broken images, flow, and half-told stories of dreams. The poetic stories in DS (2) use Brathwaite's trademark sycorax video style, offering personal revelations mixed with political and historical fables occurring around the globe. Brathwaite's prose poems relate with ardency and pathos the Caribbean experience and are a potent voice of the African diaspora. Nathaniel Mackey wrote: "Kamau Brathwaite's 'calibanic play' reveals a fiendish delight in the slippage to which words are prone." And American Book Review wrote: "In its rhythms as well as its explorations ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811216937
SKU
V9780811216937
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About Kamau Brathwaite
Kamau Brathwaite was born in Barbados in 1930. Co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement, Brathwaite has received numerous awards, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the Casa de las Americas Prize. He is currently a professor of comparative literature at New York University, and shares his time between CowPastor, Barbados, and New York City.
Reviews for DS
"The poems are kaleidoscopic contortions that adopt the logic of dreams."
Courtney MacNeil - Chicago Review "Brathwaite has invented a new linguistic music for subject matter that is all his own.
Citation for the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize" "His dazzling, inventive language, his tragic yet unquenchable vision, make Brathwaite one of the most compelling of late-twentieth-century poets."
Adrienne ... Read more
Courtney MacNeil - Chicago Review "Brathwaite has invented a new linguistic music for subject matter that is all his own.
Citation for the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize" "His dazzling, inventive language, his tragic yet unquenchable vision, make Brathwaite one of the most compelling of late-twentieth-century poets."
Adrienne ... Read more