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The Lazarus Poems Kamau Brathwaite

The Lazarus Poems By Kamau Brathwaite

The Lazarus Poems by Kamau Brathwaite


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A mystical masterwork

The Lazarus Poems Summary

The Lazarus Poems: Selected Poetry of Erin Moure by Kamau Brathwaite

This new 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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GOR013489019
9780819576873
0819576875
The Lazarus Poems: Selected Poetry of Erin Moure by Kamau Brathwaite
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Wesleyan University Press
2017-11-02
120
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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