Umfang:
122 Seiten
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Illustrationen (some color)
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22 cm
ISBN:
9781845233082
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1845233085
Inhalt:
"In its title, Strange Fruit refers to the song of a lynching made famous by Billie Holiday and to the malign persecution that drove Kamau Brathwaite from his New York home to resettlement in his native Barbados. But the title also points to the enigma of beauty created out of that experience of cultural lynching, in poems of urgency, elegance, wisdom and brave humour. ... It is a collection full of beauties of form, phrase and sound, such as in the poem "Sleep Widow" where instead of finding comfort, the poet and loved woman "bull-fight like lock-horm logga-head until the evening pools the grief along our edges/ and cools us to this peace", the very sounds in the poem fighting their way towards resolution."--Back cover
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Barbadian poetry
Mehr zum Autor:
Brathwaite, Kamau 1930-2020
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