Middlepassages: Poetry
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Kamau Brathwaite's poetry offers stunning collages devoted to the history, mythology, and language of the African diaspora, and has gained him a world reputation. Middle Passages , his most recent collection, is his sixteenth poetry volume, but his first with an American publisher. With notes of protest and lament, the fourteen poems of Middle Passages address the effects of the Middle Passage of slavery on the New World, and celebrate great musicians (Ellington, Bessie Smith), poets, heroes of the resistance, and Third World leaders Kwame Nkrumah, Walter Rodney, and Nelson Mandela. And as the London Times Literary Supplement noted, it is "a poetry that moves between rage and tenderness, doubt and displacement to affirmation... Middle Passages is a potent and effective book, a work of passion and integrity."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0811212327
ISBN13:9780811212328
Release Date:January 1994
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:120 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.2" x 8.0"
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