This poem is at once the spiritual biography of a great artist in self-exile, a history in verse of Impressionist painting, and a memoir of the poet's desire to catch the visual world in more than words. Author: Derek Walcott
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You are led to consider the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; and the significance of familiar things. Author: Jamaica Kincaid
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This work is the first to study the writings of Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire in a comparative framework, exploring their poetry as the exemplification of Negritude art and Caribbean writing. The book discusses the relationships between creative writing, the idea of Africa, and the rediscovery of African values in the Caribbean.
This new edition of his selected poems, reissued thirty years after its original publication, includes an extensive, new introductory essay by Roberto Márquez, one of the original translators and a leading authority on Caribbean and Latin American literature and culture.
This edition, containing an extensive intro, notes, the French original, a new translation of her poetry, and challenging later works as well as the famous Notebook, will remain the definitive Cesaire in English.
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Set in a snow-covered Brooklyn, Grace is a thoughtful and lovely meditation on trust, redemption, and family. Elizabeth Nunez’s delicate prose brings the struggles, aches, and tender moments of this contemporary urban love story into vivid focus.
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Author: Elizabeth Nunez
This is the portrait of a man who cannot be forgotten. A gripping, masterfully crafted tale of love, deceit, and the human compulsion for power, Discretion forces us to reconsider that ever-compelling question: At what price passion?
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These insightful, often poetic essays weave together memories of childhood as a Cuban Jewish immigrant with accounts of fieldwork in Spain, Cuba, and the United States.
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Set in Trinidad, Sastra is a moving and tender love story, a rich evocation of the village world and a memorable portrayal of a brave young woman who never tries to evade or complain about the consequences of her choice.
A story of female emancipation. Vasti must either speak out a truth and defying convention and shaming her family or submit to her fate silently. A parallel story runs throughout the novel.
In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. This book is his portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism
These essays, selected and introduced by Pankaj Mishra, range from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s. In them, our man travels the world, from his native Trinidad to his ancestral India to America and beyond, always looking with clear eyes at what's right there in front of him.
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