Mother Poem (Oxford Poets)
by Kamau Brathwaite
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In Islands, the last book of Edward Kamau Brathwaite's successful trilogy The Arrivants, the poet described his return to his native Caribbean island after a period of rootless exile in Africa and London. Mother Poem, the first book in a new sequence, describes that home from which he came, and to which he returned. In his exploration of the land and people of Barbados - the most English of West Indian islands, but at the same time, the nearest to Africa - Brathwaite mixes catholic bells and show more kumina, English and Bajan, in the complex and continuing quest for his West Indian identity. -- show lessTags
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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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