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DS (2) Kamau Brathwaite

DS (2) By Kamau Brathwaite

DS (2) by Kamau Brathwaite


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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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DS (2): Dreamstories by Kamau Brathwaite

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 of 'nation language' and of the traces of an African past, this is a populist work. This exciting new offering by Kamau Brathwaite follows on the heels of the publication of Brathwaite's Born to Slow Horses, which won the coveted 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize.

DS (2) Reviews

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 Rich
Kamau Brathwaite is one of the most important poets in the Western Hemisphere. A musicianly sensibility of sharp political reference. -- Amira Baraka

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.

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CIN0811216934G
9780811216937
0811216934
DS (2): Dreamstories by Kamau Brathwaite
Used - Good
Paperback
New Directions Publishing Corporation
20070404
272
N/A
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