A special feature in celebration of Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
“You should dance and so you should dance/ you turn and rinse long hands of rain.” By Irvin Desir, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
“The road at this hour, that late-night hour/ of road spread wide with silence; that car,/ careful and slow, lone sound of engine/ quarreling with itself…” By Vladimir Lucien, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
“All I can do is warn: lacking the right/ form, the whole dark sea’ll come crashing your dam…” By Jane King, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
“You took me by the hand,/ your child nearing forty…” By McDonald Dixon, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
“There’ve always been Sunday mornings like this,/ when God became young again/ and looking back you see/ that childhood was a Sunday morning.” By Kendel Hippolyte, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
“From islands’ scorned syllables/ your horn lifted nations’ new tongues/ Castries to Kingston…”By John Robert Lee, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
“There is no other figure, in the history of Caribbean poetry, as massive as Kamau Brathwaite.” Vladimir Lucien’s essay on the enduring influence of a towering figure in Caribbean literature.
An introduction to a series of poems, essays and paintings in celebration of Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.