Research Catalog

Title

The Lazarus poems / Kamau Brathwaite.

Author

Brathwaite, Kamau, 1930-2020

Publication

• Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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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

• 2000-2099
• Poetry
• 18.07 English literature outside Europe and the USA
• Caribbean poetry > 21st century
• Barbados

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- Redgrove/Lazarus and the sea -- reBurial (1) -- reBurial (2) -- Baptism poem -- Lazarus pleads w/the poet fe help im out of im wound -- There's such an emptiness on this hillside... -- Less beholden -- O Lazarus my lover -- How Beverley? How you? -- He rise up during the dark time of salt -- Beech tree fallen among dreams -- The sideways cauchemar -- scenArío -- You don't have no memory on yr consonats... -- A late but Valentine poem -- i am the man of dust on this hillside... -- Miracle -- for Lazarus...i fear...the miracle was nvr perfect... -- it cd only have been a blemish... -- the 40 days where I lay dying -- first Light - birth - the Beginning... -- Life is not song or resurrection -- There's so much contradiction... -- Ghost of the morning -- Alice in Wonderland -- Voyager (1) -- Voyager (2) -- i am who i am not -- if you cd have brought me back from the dead -- aureola ikon ; Mandinka Yamore -- The slave ship Beloved -- Défilée -- chimera -- old woman at the xcrossroad -- 195/120 -- And now i hear the voices from beyond the grave -- carrefour -- i've come to the stage where my [now] words... -- pale travaille hollow & familiar schelle... -- lazarus lass poem -- illus -- Farewell poem -- Revelation -- [no title] -- Opitennin.

ISBN

• 9780819576873
• 0819576875
• 9780819576880 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2017018700
• 99983496933

OCLC

• ocn983796937
• 983796937
• SCSB-8863361

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries