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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. 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In its fresh and more experimental form the trilogy embodies the recapture (what the poet has called the “intercovery”) of Brathwaite’s African\/Caribbean ancestry as a possession of power and renewal, even as it plumbs the deep tonalities of enslavement, oppression, and colonial dispossession.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49973780906257,"sku":"CIN0811214486G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52601090867473,"sku":"CIN0811214486VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811214486.jpg?v=1750785905"},{"product_id":"middlepassages-book-kamau-brathwaite-9780811212328","title":"MiddlePassages","description":"Kamau Brathwaite’s poetry offers stunning collages devoted to the history, mythology, and language of the African diaspora, and has gained him a world reputation. Middle Passages, his most recent collection, is his sixteenth poetry volume, but his first with an American publisher. With notes of protest and lament, the fourteen poems of Middle Passages address the effects of the Middle Passage of slavery on the New World, and celebrate great musicians (Ellington, Bessie Smith), poets, heroes of the resistance, and Third World leaders Kwame Nkrumah, Walter Rodney, and Nelson Mandela. And as the London Times Literary Supplement noted, it is “a poetry that moves between rage and tenderness, doubt and displacement to affirmation… Middle Passages is a potent and effective book, a work of passion and integrity.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50167540810001,"sku":"CIN0811212327G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811212327.jpg?v=1750849320"},{"product_id":"mother-poem-book-edward-k-brathwaite-9780192118592","title":"Mother Poem","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50175430492433,"sku":"GOR005548666","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0192118595.jpg?v=1750842929"},{"product_id":"black-blues-book-kamau-brathwaite-9780811213134","title":"Black + Blues","description":"Kamau Brathwaite, who won the 1994 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, has revised his celebrated 1979 Casa de las Americas collection, Black + Blues, for its first edition by a U.S. publisher. 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At last a major poet of our troubled history and troubling time is available to readers in this country.” “His dazzling, inventive language, his tragic yet unquenchable vision,” as Adrienne Rich declared, “make Kamau Brathwaite one of the most compelling of late 20th century poets.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50236514042129,"sku":"CIN0811213137G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51248192323857,"sku":"NIN9780811213134","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52649105916177,"sku":"GOR008995823","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811213137.jpg?v=1750818240"},{"product_id":"ds-2-book-kamau-brathwaite-9780811216937","title":"DS (2)","description":"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. 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Returning home, he charted a second discovery, that of Africa in the Caribbean through six interconnected books, three published in the 1960s which turned into The Arrivants:  A New World Trilogy (1973), and a second (Bajan) trilogy comprising Mother Poem (1977), Sun Poem (1982) and X\/Self (1987), all published by Oxford University Press.  MiddlePassages is an offshoot of the second trilogy, ‘a splice of time \u0026amp; space’, as he puts it, between his\/father’s world of Sun Poem and ‘the magical irrealism’ of X\/Self. With his other ‘shorter’ collections Black + Blues and Third World Poems, MiddlePassages creates a kind of chisel which may well lead us into a projected third trilogy. Here is a political angle to Brathwaite’s Caribbean \u0026amp; New World quest, with new notes of protest and lament. It marks a Sisyphean stage of Third World history in which things fall apart and everyone’s achievements come tumbling back down upon their heads and into their hearts, like the great stone which King Sisyphus was condemned to keep heaving back up the same hill in hell – a postmodernist implosion already signalled by Baldwin, Patterson, Soyinka and Achebe and more negatively by V.S. Naipaul; but given a new dimension here by Brathwaite’s rhythmical and ‘video’ affirmations.  And so MiddlePassages includes poems for those modern heroes who are the pegs by which the mountain must be climbed again: Maroon resistance, the poets Nicolás Guillén, the Cuban revolutionary, and Mikey Smith, stoned to death on Stony Hill; the great musicians (Ellington, Bessie Smith); and Third World leaders Kwame Nkrumah, Walter Rodney and Nelson Mandela.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52494565048593,"sku":"GOR003860929","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53155583361297,"sku":"GOR006765361","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781852242244.jpg?v=1759994562"},{"product_id":"elegguas-book-kamau-brathwaite-9780819569431","title":"Elegguas","description":"Kamau Brathwaite is a major Caribbean poet of his generation and one of the major world poets of the second half of the twentieth century. 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