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The Lazarus poems
- Title
- The Lazarus poems / Kamau Brathwaite.
- Author
- Brathwaite, Kamau, 1930-2020
- Publication
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 18-319 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 117 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm.
- Summary
- "This new book by the great Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite is characteristically sui generis, vatic, and strange, exhibiting ornery bravura. Tonally and typographically frenetic in the 'sycorax video style' he's been employing for decades, the work examines a major theme appropriate to a great poet in the late stages of his career: that of the afterlife. Brathwaite performs a kind of spiritual/aesthetic GPS in his poetry and is is a poet of undeniable stature, writing the final poems of his career. Central to the book is a series of poems outlining the speaker's (the poet's) experiences with what he calls "Cultural Lynching." These poems speak of appropriation, theft, isolation, and exploitation, all within a context of an American hegemony that intensifies the racial politics and ageism underlying the events described. The speaker's pain and outrage are almost overwhelming. Filled with longing, rage, nostalgia, impotence, wisdom, and love, this book is moving in every sense of the word." --Publisher description.
- Series Statement
- Wesleyan poetry
- Uniform Title
- Wesleyan poetry.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- Sc D 18-319
- ISBN
- 9780819576873
- 0819576875
- 9780819576880 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017018700
- OCLC
- 983796937
- Author
- Brathwaite, Kamau, 1930-2020, author.
- Title
- The Lazarus poems / Kamau Brathwaite.
- Publisher
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Wesleyan poetryWesleyan poetry.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 18-319