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The Lazarus Poems

by Kamau Brathwaite
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780819580177
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 136
  • Original Price: GBP 13.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 284 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Caribbean & Latin American and American / General

A mystical masterwork

This 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.

KAMAU BRATHWAITE (1930-2020) was an internationally celebrated poet, performer, and cultural theorist. He won numerous awards, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Griffin Poetry Prize. A retired professor of comparative literature at New York University, Brathwaite lived in CowPastor, Barbados.

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