DS (2): Dreamstories
Kamau Brathwaite
(Author)
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. The poetic stories in DS (2) use Brathwaite's trademark sycorax video style, offering personal revelations mixed with political and historical fables occurring around the globe. Brathwaite's prose poems relate with ardency and pathos the Caribbean experience and are a potent voice of the African diaspora. Nathaniel Mackey wrote: "Kamau Brathwaite's 'calibanic play' reveals a fiendish delight in the slippage to which words are prone." And American Book Review wrote: "In its rhythms as well as its explorations of 'nation language' and of the traces of an African past, this is a populist work." This exciting new offering by Kamau Brathwaite follows on the heels of the publication of Brathwaite's Born to Slow Horses, which won the coveted 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize.Product Details
Price
$18.95
$17.62
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
April 01, 2007
Pages
265
Dimensions
6.04 X 0.7 X 8.94 inches | 0.81 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811216937
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About the Author
Since the early 1950s, Kamau Brathwaite has been one of the leading producers of intellectual discourse on Caribbean literature and culture. With poetic works such as the Arrivants (1973), a chronicle of the triangular slave trade, his place as a major contemporary poet and original literary voice of the Caribbean is well-established. The richness of Professor Brathwaite's verse is paralleled by the depth of his scholarly essays in literary criticism, cultural theory, and history. In recognition of his many literary achievements, Professor Brathwaite has been awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Casa de las Américas Premio, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Fulbright Fellowship. Among his books are Ancestors, Magical Realism, Golokwati, WORDS NEED LOVE TOO, Ark: A 9/11 Continuation Poem, The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica 1770-1820, CONVERSATIONS WITH NATHANIEL MACKEY, Born to Slow Horses, and TRENCH TOWN ROCK.
Reviews
The poems are kaleidoscopic contortions that adopt the logic of dreams.--Courtney MacNeil
Brathwaite has invented a new linguistic music for subject matter that is all his own. --Citation for the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize
His dazzling, inventive language, his tragic yet unquenchable vision, make Brathwaite one of the most compelling of late-twentieth-century poets.--Adrienne Rich
Kamau Brathwaite is one of the most important poets in the Western Hemisphere. A musicianly sensibility of sharp political reference.--Amira Baraka
Brathwaite has invented a new linguistic music for subject matter that is all his own. --Citation for the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize
His dazzling, inventive language, his tragic yet unquenchable vision, make Brathwaite one of the most compelling of late-twentieth-century poets.--Adrienne Rich
Kamau Brathwaite is one of the most important poets in the Western Hemisphere. A musicianly sensibility of sharp political reference.--Amira Baraka
