Console by Colin Channer
The second collection by "one of the most significant literary figures in the Caribbean" (The Globe and Mail). Assured but chance-inflected, ever rooted in the local but always world-aware, Console reconsiders languages, geographies, and memories as luminous soundscapes. With lyric dexterity, Colin Channer jolts old notions of New England, cross-fading from the Berkshires to Anguilla, from Connecticut to Senegal. A dissolve to the poet's childhood in Jamaica occurs after glimpsing an old record player in Providence, leading to the title poem's meditations on reggae, religion, marriage, justice, and transgressions in the home. With allusive links to photography, music, sea mammals, mistranslation, and the universal ritual of "the walk," Console reorganizes our sense of time, collapses and rebreaks the remembered and certain, renames the familiar, reaches for settled etymologies, and turns words inside out. Includes 8 black-and-white photographs
Colin Channer is the author of several works, including the poetry collection Providential, the novella The Girl With the Golden Shoes, and the novel Waiting in Vain. His poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Review, Black Renaissance Noire, and other publications. Born in Jamaica, Channer now lives in New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780374607227 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374607222 |
| Title | Console |
| Author | Colin Channer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Year published | 2023-07-18 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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