Research Catalog

Title

Ancestors : a reinvention of Mother poem, Sun poem, and X/self / Kamau Brathwaite.

Author

Brathwaite, Kamau, 1930-2020

Publication

New York : New Directions, 2001.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• New Directions Publishing hou
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

473 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Ancestors startlingly reinvents one of the most important long poems of our hemisphere. Here in a single volume is Kamau Brathwaite's long unavailable, landmark trilogy - Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/Self (1977, 1982, and 1987) - now completely revised and expanded by the author." "With its "Video Sycorax" typographic inventions and linguistic play, Ancestors liberates both the language and the new-Caliban vision of the poet. In its fresh and more experimental form the trilogy embodies the recapture (what the poet has called the "intercovery") of Brathwaite's African/Caribbean ancestry as a possession of power and renewal, even as it plumbs the deep tonalities of enslavement, oppression, and colonial dispossession."--Jacket.

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; 902

Subject

• Barbados > Poetry
• Caribbean Area > Poetry
• Imperialism > Poetry
• Racism > Poetry
• Slavery > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Rock Seed -- Alpha -- Twine -- Sam Lord -- Bell -- Fever -- Lix -- Occident -- Pig mornin -- CowPastor -- Tear or pear shape -- Nightwash -- Miss Own -- Horse Weebles -- Woo/Dove -- Pixie -- Heartbreak Hotel -- Hex -- Milkweed -- Valient -- Nam(e)tracks -- Tuk -- Days -- Nights -- Cherries -- Prayer -- Moth air -- Koumfort -- Angel/Engine -- Mid/Life -- Driftword.

ISBN

0811214486 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00055023^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library