Here for the first time in a single volume is Edward Brathwaite's "Caribbean Trilogy - Rights of Passage, Masks, and Islands" - a brilliant exploration of the predicament of the contemporary New World Negro. Through the tension of jazz/folk rhythm, through historical flashbacks, and excursions to Europe, New York and Africa, the poet interweaves ...
This highly successful series The People Who Came (Book 3) consists of three books specifically written for the junior years of secondary schools in the Caribbean. Unique in its scope, the series provides a history of the people of the New World from a West Indian point of view. Key features include: *Many maps, diagrams, illustrations and colour ...
This volume is the second in a trilogy of which Mother Poem was the first. Edward Kamau Brathwaite's previous trilogy, The Arrivants , involved a search for the poet's African/Caribbean ancestry; the new book is more personal: Sun Poem , leaving the female-dominated Barbadan landscape of Mother Poem , explores the male history of the island as it ...
X-Self is the final part of a trilogy by the celebrated West Indian poet, Edward Kamau Brathwaite. The trilogy is in the widest sense autobiographical. In 'Mother Poem', the poet described the female-dominated background to his childhood in Barbados. In 'Sun Poem', he explained the male culture and tradition. Now, in X-Self , he weaves together ...
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Spring
Date Published: 1974`
Description: Near fine in printed green and white wrappers (crease on corner of rear cover. ) Issue on "SLAVERY, COLONIALISM AND RACISM" with contributions by the authors shown above and several others, including J. F. Ade, Ajayi, Nketia, Thomas Sowell, etc. read more
Description: A fine copy.. (MONTAGUE, John). CRITICAL QUARTERLY [Periodical]. Vol. 14, No. 1. Spring 1972. Octavo, green printed wrappers, 95 pages. Laid in is a two page index to Volume 13, 1971. Contains John Montague's poem, "A Grafted Tongue. " Also prints contributions by Elizabeth Jennings, Edward Brathwaite, John Wain et al. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: BIM
Date Published: 1963
Description: Ex-library copy, with library rubberstamps on front and rear covers. Light wear at tips of spine and extremities, else a very good copy. (WALCOTT, Derek). BIM [Periodical]. Vol. 10, No. 37. July-December, 1963. Octavo, printed wrappers, 65 pages (plus ads), illustrated (with a frontispiece by W. Therold Barnes). Contains two poems by Derek Walcott, "Words, Words, Words is the Future" by Austin Clarke, "Roots" ("A Commentary on West Indian Writers") by L. Edward Brathwaite, etc. read more
Edition: First edition, promotional flyer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1966
Description: A fine copy. (KINSELLA, Thomas). SOME MODERN POETRY FROM OXFORD. Edward Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, Tony Connor, David Gascoyne, John Heath-Stubbs, Thomas Kinsella, Douglas Livingstone, Edward Lucie-Smith, A. K. Ramanujan, Tom Scott, Anne Sexton, Louis Simpson, Robin Skelton, Jon Stallworthy, Anthony Thwaite, Charles Tomlinson, Hugo Williams, Keith Wright. Single sheet, folded to make ten, tall narrow octavo pages, printed on yellow paper. Issued as a promotional publication for Oxford ... read more
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(Heaney, Seamus). (Jarrell, Randall). (Plath, Sylvia). (Snyder, Gary). (Lowell, Robert). (Hughes, Ted). (Brathwaite, Edward)....
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Edition: First edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: (The Critical Quarterly)
Date Published: 1966
Description: A fine copy. (HEANEY, Seamus). NEW POEMS 1966. [issued as Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement Number 7]. Octavo, stiff purple printed wrappers, 24 pages, stapled. Prints "Churning Day" and "Blackberry-Picking" by Seamus Heaney, "You're" by Syliva Plath, "Reveille" by Ted Hughes, "For the Union Dead" by Robert Lowell, "The Cabin" by West Indian poet Edward Brathwaite, three poems by Gary Snyder, and poems by Randall Jarrell, Thom Gunn et al. read more
Edition: First Cuban edition, text in Spanish
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Casa de Las Americas
Date Published: 1977
Description: A fine copy in near fine dust jacket; jacket is evenly faded on spine. [CARRIBEAN POETRY: BARBADOS]. BRATHWAITE, Edward Kamau. BLACK + BLUES [Poems]. [English language edition, by the same publisher, was published in 1976]. Twelvemo, illustrated wrappers, 93 pages. read more
Edition: First edition, advance review copy.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1969
Description: Top edge is lightly foxed, else a near fine copy in very good dust jacket. The jacket has light wear at crown of spine, uneven fading on rear panel, else very good; publisher's review slip laid into book. [CARIBBEAN POETRY: BARBADOS]. BRATHWAITE, Edward. ISLANDS [Poems]. Octavo, cloth, pp. xii, 113. "The third part of Edward Brathwaite's trilogy of poems about the Negro's encounter with the New World interweaves the past and present of his Caribbean homeland..." (from the dust jacket). read more
Edition: First American edition, advance review copy.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1967
Description: Two pages of text have faint crease at tip of one corner, else a fine copy in very good dust jacket. The jacket spine is lightly faded, with two short edge tears (with two small clear tape mends on verso), else quite bright; publisher's printed review... [CARIBBEAN POETRY: BARBADOS]. BRATHWAITE, Edward. RIGHTS OF PASSAGE [Poems] by Edward Brathwaite. Octavo, cloth, 87 pages. The author was born in Barbados and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, before returning to the West Indies. read more
Edition: First American edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1967
Description: A fine copy in very good dust jacket; jacket has one small chip, short tear. [CARIBBEAN POETRY: BARBADOS]. BRATHWAITE, Edward. RIGHTS OF PASSAGE [Poems] by Edward Brathwaite. Octavo, cloth, 87 pages. The author was born in Barbados and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, before returning to the West Indies. read more
Edition: First edition, text in English.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Casa de Las Americas
Date Published: 1976
Description: A fine copy in near fine dust jacket; jacket is evenly faded on spine. [CARRIBEAN POETRY: BARBADOS]. BRATHWAITE, Edward Kamau. BLACK + BLUES [Poems]. Twelvemo, illustrated wrappers, 93 pages. read more
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