Black Blues (New Directions Paperbook)
by Kamau Brathwaite
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A collection of poems includes Fetish, Totem, Caliban, Springblade, Bread, Xango, and Koker.Tags
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A revised version of the Casa de las Américas Prize-winning collection of poems. This represents Brathwaite's shorter poetry of the 1970s, with some additions from the 1990s. He plays here with language and jazz, riffing on both and on the condition of blackness, in Africa, in the Caribbean and the Americas generally.
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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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