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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 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:
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 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 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 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 80 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 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 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 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 Beach in My Heart by : Chidi ObiGod
Download or read book The Beach in My Heart written by Chidi ObiGod and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the pressure is high and life is chilling, there is a place one always go to warm up with pleasure, ease up and release some stress. It can be a place you go to reflect on the past to rejuvenate the present in order to catch a revelation or vision of the future. It can also be a place where you relax and allow the touch of romance do a massage on your body, stimulate your mind and breathe on your emotions till your entire system undergo a revolution around your true essence. I have my own place where I go when the tide is high and the sky not bright. I call it The Beach in My Heart. The beach in the heart of other people can be a place where music, painting, sports, meditation, inclinations are flowing, but the beach in my heart is the place where poems flow.I wrote these awesome poems for myself alone because they help me like a therapy session, they have healing effects on me, they have a way of rejuvenating me and feeling me with revelations. Fortunately some people started reading my poems and they have same effect on people as they have on me. My friends insisted I should share them and publish them. I hope these poems benefit me as it has benefited others.
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."
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 Poems for My People by : Hugh Skinner
Download or read book Poems for My People written by Hugh Skinner and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Child of the Storms, and Other Poems by : Kenneth Vidia Parmasad
Download or read book Child of the Storms, and Other Poems written by Kenneth Vidia Parmasad and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monster Parts by : Brendon J. O'Brien
Download or read book Monster Parts written by Brendon J. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
