“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.
“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.