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Book Synopsis 100 Poems from Trinidad and Tobago by : Ian Andrew Dieffenthaller
Download or read book 100 Poems from Trinidad and Tobago written by Ian Andrew Dieffenthaller and published by . This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first all-encompassing anthology of the poetry of Trinidad and Tobago since AM Clarke's 'Best Poems', the book spans 90 years from the era of the Beacon Group to the present day.
Book Synopsis 100 Poems from Trinidad and Tobago by : Ian Andrew Dieffenthaller
Download or read book 100 Poems from Trinidad and Tobago written by Ian Andrew Dieffenthaller and published by . This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first all-encompassing anthology of the poetry of Trinidad and Tobago since AM Clarke's 'Best Poems', the book spans 90 years from the era of the Beacon Group to the present day.
Download or read book Lagahoo Poems written by James C. Aboud and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lagahoo is a shapeshifting, trickster figure of Trinidadian legend (and popular belief), a thoroughly creolised werewolf. Like the native American Coyote, he operates at both divine and very human levels, as both a world-creator and an interferer in peoples' affairs. The subject and consciousness of these arresting and truly original poems, Lagahoo is present from the beginnings of time, witness to countless arrivals and still around at the new millennium with his sly rejections of all repressions: sexual, social or political. He is present on a crowded bus, whispering, 'Your feet are bound and laced in leather, / Your women's breasts are held with wires'. He is the creative, subversive creature of 'deep dark mud-lust and rebellion', who, unlike men, makes no distinction between himself and the earth he lives off ('I wear the red earth by staying low') whilst men live in a state of alienation and ecological enmity until their deaths when ('the earth will stitch their bodies/ With roots and vines, Like stupid little buttons.') Belief in the reality of the lagahoo has featured as a successful defence in the Trinidadian courts where Aboud practices his other occupation as a barrister. There a defendant was acquitted from a wounding charge on the grounds that he believed that his victim, attacked at night, was a lagahoo. The victim, indeed, corroborated this defence by admitting that though he had never seen one, 'Ah does hear dem howling in de night'. In locating his voice in the twilight world between legend and reality, Aboud constantly rearranges the way the world can be perceived. James Christopher Aboud was born in Trinidad in 1956 and educated there, in Canada, and in England. His first collection of poetry, The Stone Rose, was published in 1986. He lives in Port of Spain and is a Barrister-at-Law.
Book Synopsis So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival by : Colin Channer
Download or read book So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival written by Colin Channer and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Pinsky and Derek Walcott anchor this groundbreaking, soulful poetry collection. Imagine a night of a hundred poets reading their work to an audience of intensely engaged, responsive, and lively people—say three thousand of them. They are a loud bunch when it is time to make noise, but they are silent as congregants at prayer when the poets’ language entrances them. Imagine the reading taking place under a tent pitched on a grassy lawn that overlooks the Caribbean Sea. Imagine that this is not the north coast of Jamaica, with its cliche of white sands and coconut trees, a place glutted with cruise ship passengers and bewildered tourists; imagine instead a rugged coastline, a landscape full of the kind of character we find in the weather-beaten faces of wise old folk; imagine fishermen, farmers, ordinary workers, schoolchildren, and traveling people moving around as if they have been in this place forever and as if they all belong . . . Imagine one hundred poets, some whose names you know and some you have never heard of, stepping onto the stage, opening their mouths and hearts, and singing out poems of great variety, complexity, beauty, and passion . . . Imagine laughter and tears, imagine sighs of familiarity and moans of pain, imagine tragedies enacted in the words that move through the shelter of the tent; imagine a poem like a fist, or a sharply painful open palm, or the tender caress of fingers, or the firm grasp of a handshake. Imagine stories dropping like seeds into the ground and growing rapidly and wildly all around you. This is the setting and mood of the greatest little festival in the greatest little village in the greatest little country in the world, and this anthology is what the festival would look like were all 100 poets who have read at Calabash over the years to come together on a late-May weekend to read. So Much Things to Say is a unique gathering of a group of poets who represent at least one reckoning of the place of contemporary poetry in 2010. Contributors include Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Elizabeth Alexander, Amiri Baraka, Martin Espada, Terrance Hayes, Valzyna Mort, Sonia Sanchez, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Patricia Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Staceyann Chin, and 88 others.
Book Synopsis 100+ Black Women in Horror by : Sumiko Saulson
Download or read book 100+ Black Women in Horror written by Sumiko Saulson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing the biographies of over one hundred black women who write horror, 100+ Black Women in Horror is a reference guide, a veritable who's who of female horror writers from the African Diaspora. It is an expansion of the original 2014 book 60 Black Women in Horror. February is African American History Month here in the United States. It is also Women in Horror Month (WiHM). This list of black women who write horror was compiled at the intersection of the two. It consists of an alphabetical listing of the women with biographies, photos, and web addresses, as well as interviews with 17 of these women and an essay by David Watson on LA Banks and Octavia Butler.
Download or read book We Talk Poetry written by Nneka Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New York City/ Trinidad & Tobago Flavoured Poetry by : David Lee-Sam
Download or read book New York City/ Trinidad & Tobago Flavoured Poetry written by David Lee-Sam and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Twice Upon a Time by : Paul Keens-Douglas
Download or read book Twice Upon a Time written by Paul Keens-Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Trinidad and Tobago by : Rita Pemberton
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Trinidad and Tobago written by Rita Pemberton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As separate entities and later a unified state, the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago boast very unique histories. Initially claimed by the Spanish in 1498, these territories were affected by the imperialist thrusts of various European nations including the French, British and Dutch. The mercantilist infiltrations of these groups, particularly in the 18th century, led to the islands’ belated development as sugar producers and, particularly Trinidad, as a cradle of migration. World War II and the development of the oil and tourism industries in the 20th century transformed the economies, culture and society of these islands. The country has been one of the most important in the region in relation to economic and political leadership and as a centre of cultural development. Historical Dictionary of Trinidad and Tobago contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Trinidad and Tobago.
Book Synopsis Crossroads of Dream by : Anson Gonzalez
Download or read book Crossroads of Dream written by Anson Gonzalez and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These prose poems criss-cross the crossroads between dream and conscious awareness, taking the reader on a surreal adventure into the mental journeys of a persona for whom the inner and outer worlds are a seamless universe.
Book Synopsis Between the Fence and the Forest by : Jennifer Rahim
Download or read book Between the Fence and the Forest written by Jennifer Rahim and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparing herself to a douen, a mythical being from the Trinidadian forests whose head and feet face in different directions, Jennifer Rahim's poems explore states of uncertainty both as sources of discomfort and of creative possibility. The poems explore a Trinidad finely balanced between the forces of rapid urbanisation and the constantly encroaching green chaos of tropical bush, whose turbulence regularly threatens a fragile social order, and whose people, as the descendants of slaves and indentured labourers, are acutely resistant to any threat to clip their wings and fence them in. In her own life, Rahim explores the contrary urges to a neat security and to an unfettered sense of freedom and her attraction to the forest 'where tallness is not the neighbour's fences/ and bigness is not the swollen houses/ that swallow us all'. It is, though, a place where the bushplanter 'seeing me grow branches/ draws out his cutting steel and slashes my feet/ since girls can never become trees'. Jennifer Rahim is Trinidadian. She also writes short fiction and criticism. She is currently Senior Lecturer at The Liberal Arts Department, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad.
Book Synopsis Fire's Voice by : Kasi Senge Senghor
Download or read book Fire's Voice written by Kasi Senge Senghor and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE 1970 BLACK POWER REVOLUTION IN TRINIDAD & TOBAGO SPAWNED MOST OF THESE POEMS. AFRICANS AND INDIANS UNITE. YOUNG AFRICAN MEN MURDER EACH OTHER. SOCIETY LOOKS ON. THE SYSTEM CUTS DEEP. EVERYBODY KNOWS. SUCHNESS. THE WORK SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. Creating spaces. HAVE PATIENCE. AM JUST A POET. ADDING YEARS. THE WORK SPEAKS. LISTEN MORE OFTEN TO THINGS THAN TO BEINGS. TO ITSELF. TOYS. More space.
Book Synopsis A Mural by the Sea by : Dawad Philip
Download or read book A Mural by the Sea written by Dawad Philip and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry and masquerade have always resided in me. I know them to be inspired, and when well rendered, magical. From San Fernando to Brooklyn, poetry is the Carnival, and the Trinidad Carnival finds its way into my poetry-as visual and oral experience-everyday living, a painted face J'ouvert morning. Many of the poems in this volume have aged with me and over that time, and again like my own life, been transformed into some measure of sustained lucidity. The heart of these poems speaks to ordinary men and women and the world about them. From this landscape, language and experience comes "A Mural by the Sea"."In A Mural by the Sea, and after a long wait, Dawad Philip has presented us with a brilliant work infused with an imagery that is vivid and intense. His poems are like Impressionist paintings, with delicate yet deliberate brush strokes-image laden and alliterative-touching deeper parts of the soul and psyche. His voice is authentic, trustworthy, rooted in the soil and hardscrabble streets of his native Trinidad, and Brooklyn where he lived for nearly four decades. Philip embraces the richness and complexities of Caribbean life and culture without being sentimental nor duplicitous. His poems are a feast for the senses, a large and grand poetic mural that reaches beyond 'the steel margins' of our lives and our mortality." -Geoffrey Dunn, Award-winning author and filmmaker, Calypso Dreams and Glamour Boyz Again"What we get from Dawad Philip's well-wrought poems, A Mural by The Sea, is the feel of villages and towns, as we used to know them, on their own, set apart from the continental bustle, Trinidad, not an old Trinidad, a substantial Trinidad starring real people, seamstresses and mas-makers and mas-players, dancers and singers in a love story that rescues for us those people who would have slipped away, but are snatched, held and brought back now to live again forever in all their beauty, the place alive with struggle and hope, calypso and mas and behind it all the quiet grief of loss, of love, of life." -Earl Lovelace, Award-winning author of While Gods are Falling"This new book by Dawad Philip, someone I have understood for three decades to be a master of the genre, recalls exquisitely what Gwen Brooks once termed "a heart hunger for poetry." In this instance, the assuaged heart hunger is my own. The cinematography of the collection will linger, implanting sensuous color, heat, foliage and delineating a tribe. These are persons linked by the certainty of their rootedness, as much as by their understanding that the crystal stair is no less taxing than the wooden one. Mr. Philip's language is a force of nature. His engagement with life's minutiae is both fixation and antidote. His is an awesome poetic footprint, caught up in the beauty of landscape, sound and the sanctity of each breath." -Ruth Garnett"Dawad Philip is a miniaturist: his lines cut fine, carved into the dreams and fantasies, not only from the island he loves, but from everywhere where the metaphor of solitude contradicts itself, leaving nobody isolated, marooned, forced to fend for himself, make a life out of silence. Dawad gives us Trinidad, its streets, country roads, Carnival, its migrants, in sharp, sculpted verse ranging freely in a vast mural by the sea." -Indran AmrithanayagamDawad Philip: Author of Invocations (1980), A Mural by the Sea (2017) and Jayden and the King of the Brooklyn Carnival (with Yolanda Lezama-Clark, 2019). Dawad Philip's poems have appeared in Steppingstones, Bomb, Caribbean Voices, Poetry International, past simple, Voicing Our Vision and New Rain. The poem, "Licks" is a slightly revised version of the original (Invocations 1980). A 1990 recipient of New York State Fellowship on the Arts (Poetry), he has performed his works in the Caribbean, U.S., Canada, Latvia and Russia. Philip, who holds a Masters of Arts (Carnival Arts) degree from the University of Trinidad and Tobago, keeps active in the Carnival.
Book Synopsis The Star-Apple Kingdom by : Derek Walcott
Download or read book The Star-Apple Kingdom written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the poems in this new collection follow the arc of the Caribbean archipelago from Trinidad to Jamaica. The reader is taken on an odyssey, beginning with "The Schooner Flight," in which a poor mulatto sailor abandons his life in Trinidad, sailing northward to meet his fate, and ending with "The Star-Apple Kingdom," a long poem whose axis is the crucial attempt to establish a new social order in Jamaica without sacrificing democracy. Other poems speak through various personae: "Koenig of the River" marks the end of a saga of nineteenth-century exploration and conquest through the Conradian image of a missionary-soldier whose comrades have been lost at sea; "The Saddhu of Couva" describes the lament of an Indian priest for a fading spirituality; "Egypt, Tobago" places Mark Antony on a beach in the glare of afternoon. Two poems are dedicated to fellow poets--Josephy Brodsky and Robert Lowell. In The Star-Apple Kingdom, Walcott's precise and inventive imagery is enriched by frequent exploitation of the tonal aspects of dialect. He has absorbed into poetry the normal resources of fiction--to the point where fact crystallizes into metaphor. As John Thompson recently commented in The New York Review of Books: "Walcott writes now as a man who knows exactly what he is doing. His style is that of the best language of our period."
Book Synopsis Little Land of Limericks by : Jerome Teelucksingh
Download or read book Little Land of Limericks written by Jerome Teelucksingh and published by Light Switch Press. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of poetry showcases the creativity of one of the Caribbean's lesser known poets. The book's three sections will appeal to a wide cross-section of readers. The first section captures the emotions and conditions connected with current topics as terrorism, disease, health and recreation. The second segment with two limericks is light-hearted and will attract a younger audience. The final section contains Christian verses which are inspirational and focuses on various aspects of the life of Jesus Christ. Jerome Teelucksingh is from Trinidad and Tobago. His poems have been published in anthologies such as- Meanderings: A Collection of Poetic Verse, Universal Oneness and People Poetry. His poetry have appeared in magazines and journals including the Poetry Box, Taj Mahal Review, Caribbean Intransit, In Search of Fatherhood, Interviewing the Caribbean, Caribbean Voice, Yatra, Journal of South Texas Studies, San Pedro Review and Di'logos.
Book Synopsis Poems at the Edge of Differences by : Renate Papke
Download or read book Poems at the Edge of Differences written by Renate Papke and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2008 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study consists of two parts. The first part offers an overview of feminism's theory of differences. The second part deals with the textual analysis of poems about 'mothering' by women from India, the Caribbean and Africa. Literary criticism has dealt with the representation of 'mothering' in prose texts. The exploration of lyrical texts has not yet come. Since the late 1970s, the acknowledgement of and the commitment to difference has been foundational for feminist theory and activism. This investigation promotes a differentiated, 'locational' feminism (Friedman). The comprehensive theoretical discussion of feminism's different concepts of 'gender', 'race', 'ethnicity' and 'mothering' builds the foundation for the main part: the presentation and analysis of the poems. The issue of 'mothering' foregrounds the communicative aspect of women's experience and wants to bridge the gap between theory and practice. This study, however, does not intend to specify 'mothering' as a universal and unique feminine characteristic. It underlines a metaphorical use and discusses the concepts of 'nurturing', 'maternal practice' and 'social parenthood'. Regarding the extensive material, this study understands itself as an explorative not concluding investigation placed at the intersections of gender studies, postcolonial and classical literary studies. Most of all, it aims at initiating a dialogue and interchange between scholars and students in the Western and the 'Third World'.
Book Synopsis Approaching Sabbaths by : Jennifer Rahim
Download or read book Approaching Sabbaths written by Jennifer Rahim and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a powerful sense of Trinidadian history and moving seamlessly between matters of family and matters of country, Jennifer Rahim s confessional and sensitive poems explore the threats and realities of fragmentationof psyche s, of family, and of a nation. With a balance of personal trauma, misery, and death with the cool, reflective nature of poetry, these pieces touch on topics such as family relationships and secrets, gender, abuse, and a troubled, fragile Caribbean."
