Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse - Mark McWatt, Stewart Brown - Paperback - NON-FICTION - ENGLISH - 9780192803320

Summary: The Caribbean produced what is arguably the most vigorous and exciting body of poetry of the twentieth century. In The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, Stewart Brown and Mark McWatt have come together to produce the only anthology of Caribbean poetry available that represents all of the Caribbean--not only the English language writers. The book features a range of poets, from Derek Walcott and Edward Braithwaite to Jesus Cos Causse, and from Olive Senior to Una Marson. It covers less acclaimed poets of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, as well as exciting newer voices from the 80s and 90s. Poetry lovers of any description will find this a rich and satisfying book. The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse offers a new and original context in which to explore the unique poetry of the Caribbean. This rich and satisfying collection will enchant, entertain, and inform anyone with an interest in the art of poetry. Academic Level : Scholarly/Undergraduate Author : Stewart Brown (Editor), Mark McWatt (Editor) Binding : Paperback BISAC Subject : Literary Collections / Caribbean & Latin American, Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American, Poetry / Caribbean & Latin American Book Type : NON-FICTION Dewey : 808.81/009729 Geographic Designator : Caribbean Language : ENGLISH LCCN : 2006273585 Library Subject : Caribbean poetry, Caribbean poetry (English), Translations into English Pages : 405, xxxv, 405 p. ; Place of Publication : Great Britain/British Isles Publication Date : 11/03/2005 Series : Oxford Books of Verse Subject Development : African American, Poetry Textual Format : Readings/Anthologies/Collected Works About the Author(s): Stewart Brown is a poet and critic who teaches African and Caribbean literature at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham. Mark McWatt, a Guyanese poet and critic, is currently Professor of West Indian Literature in the Department of English at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. Table of Contents Introduction xvii Saint-John Perse (Guadeloupe, 1887--1975) from Pictures for Crusoe The Bells 3 (1) The Wall 3 (1) The City 4 (1) Friday 5 (1) The Parrot 5 (2) Claude McKay (Jamaica, 1889--1948) The Harlem Dancer 7 (1) A Midnight Woman to the Bobby 7 (2) Leon Laleau (Haiti, 1892--1979) Betrayal 9 (1) Frank Collymore (Barbados, 1893--1980) Hymn to the Sea 10 (2) Luis Pales Matos (Puerto Rico, 1898--1959) Forbidden Fruit 12 (1) H.A. Vaughan (Barbados, 1901--1985) Revelation 13 (1) Marie-Magdeleine Carbet (Martinique, b. 1902) Would I Deny? 14 (2) Nicolas Guillen (Cuba, 1902--1987) from The Great Zoo Senora 16 (1) The Usurers 16 (1) Hunger 17 (1) Cyclone 17 (1) KKK 17 (1) Bars 18 (1) Ballad of the Two Grandfathers 19 (1) Wake for Papa Montero 20 (3) Philip Sherlock (Jamaica, 1902--2000) Trees His Testament 23 (2) Albert Helman (Surinam, 1903--1996) Lullaby 25 (1) Roger Mais (Jamaica, 1905--1955) All Men Come to the Hills 26 (1) Una Marson (Jamaica, 1905--1965) Cameo 27 (1) Vera Bell (Jamaica, b. 1906) Ancestor on the Auction Block 28 (2) Jacques Roumain (Haiti, 1907--1944) Guinea 30 (1) Phyllis Shand Allfrey (Dominica, 1908--1986) Love for an Island 31 (1) Jean Brierre (Haiti, b. 1909) Here I Am Again, Harlem 32 (2) Harold M. Telemaque (Trinidad, 1909--1982) In Our Land 34 (1) Vivian Virtue (Jamaica, 1911--1998) Landscape Painter, Jamaica 35 (1) Leon-Gontran Damas (French Guiana, 1912--1978) S.O.S. 36 (1) So Often 37 (1) Aime Cesaire (Martinique, b. 1913) from Return to My Native Land 38 (1) Lost Body 39 (1) lagoonal calendar 40 (2) The Automatic Crystal 42 (1) Wifredo Lam . . . 43 (2) Pedro Mir (Dominican Republic, 1913--2000) Meditation on the Shores of Evening 45 (2) Julia De Burgos (Puerto Rico, 1914--1953) To Julia de Burgos 47 (1) Poem with the Final Tune 48 (2) A.J. Seymour (Guyana, 1914--1989) There Runs a Dream 50 (1) Sun is a Shapely Fire 50 (2) Eric Roach (Tobago, 1915--1974) Love Overgrows a Rock 52 (1) The World of Islands 53 (1) George Campbell (Jamaica, 1916--2002) Negro Aroused 54 (1) Trefossa (Surinam, 1916--1975) A true poem . . . 55 (1) Guy Tirolien (Guadeloupe, 1917--1988) Islands 56 (1) Ghetto 57 (2) Marie-Therese Colimon (Haiti, 1918--1988) Encounter 59 (1) Aida Cartagena Portalatin (Dominican Republic, 1918--1994) A Woman Alone 60 (1) Louise Bennett (Jamaica, b. 1919) Dutty Tough 61 (1) Jamaica Oman 62 (2) Barbara Ferland (Jamaica, b. 1919) When They Come from the Island 64 (2) John Figueroa (Jamaica, 1920--1999) Christmas Breeze 66 (1) This Tree My Time Keeper 67 (4) Wilson Harris (Guyana, b. 1921) Behring Straits 71 A.L. Hendriks (Jamaica, 1922--1992) The Migrant 68 (1) Basil McFarlane (Jamaica, b. 1922) Arawak Prologue 69 (4) Gloria Escoffery (Jamaica, 1923--2002) Shelling Gungo Peas 73 (2) Cecil Gray (Trinidad, b. 1923) On the Road 75 (1) Threading the Needle 76 (2) Bruce St. John (Barbados, 1923--1995) Lighters 78 (2) Louis Simpson (Jamaica, b. 1923) Working Late 80 (2) James Berry (Jamaica, b. 1924) Cut-Way Feelins 82 (1) Letter to My Father from London 82 (2) Rene Depestre (Haiti, b. 1926) Ballad of a Little Lamp 84 (1) Black Ore 85 (3) Neville Dawes (Jamaica, 1926--1984) Acceptance 88 (2) Nydia Ecury (Aruba, b. 1926) The Visit 90 (1) Martin Carter (Guyana, 1927--1997) University of Hunger 91 (2) Poems of Shape and Motion 93 (3) Proem 96 (1) Being Always 96 (1) E. Mc.G. `Shake' Keane (St Vincent, 1927--1997) Shaker Funeral 97 (2) Soufriere (79) 99 (3) John La Rose (Trinidad, b. 1927) Not From Here 102 (1) Edouard Glissant (Martinique, b. 1928) November 103 (1) Wild Reading 103 (1) Slow Train 104 (1) Walkway of Lonely Death 105 (2) Andrew Salkey (Jamaica, 1928--1995) History and Away 107 (1) Ralph Thompson (Jamaica, b. 1928) Dinner Party 108 (2) Dennis Craig (Guyana, 1929--2004) Trader 110 (2) Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados, b. 1930) The visibility trigger 112 (2) South 114 (1) Milkweed 115 (2) from Sun Poem 11/12 117 (4) The SilverSands Poem 121 (1) Roberto Fernandez Retamar (Cuba, b. 1930) How Lucky, the Normal 122 (1) Where's Fernandez? 123 (4) Derek Walcott (St Lucia, b. 1930) The Schooner Flight 127 (14) Heberto Padilla (Cuba, 1932--2000) In Trying Times 141 (1) Rene Philoctete (Haiti, 1932--1995) Misery by Sunlight 142 (1) Michael Gilkes (Guyana, b. 1933) The Lighthouse 143 (2) Edward Lucie-Smith (Jamaica, b. 1933) Your Own Place 145 (1) John Lyons (Trinidad, b. 1933) Crusoe's Thursday 146 (1) Ian McDonald (Trinidad/Guyana, b. 1933) Forest Path, Nightfall 147 (1) The Sun Parrots are Late This Year 148 (2) Stanley Greaves (Guyana, b. 1934) Knees 150 (1) Slade Hopkinson (Abdur-Rahman) (Guyana, 1934--1993) The Madwoman of Papine 151 (2) Robin Dobru (Surinam, 1935--1983) Jani (MP) 153 (1) Frank Martinus Arion (Curacao, b. 1936) I fell in deep snow . . . 154 (1) Edward Baugh (Jamaica, b. 1936) The Carpenter's Complaint 155 (1) Sometimes in the Middle of the Story 156 (1) Anson Gonzalez (Trinidad, b. 1936) Tabiz 157 (2) Rajandaye Ramkissoon-Chen (Trinidad, b. 1936) Still My Teacher 159 (1) Howard Fergus (Montserrat, b. 1937) Behind God Back 160 (2) Claire Harris (Trinidad, b. 1937) Child this is the gospel on bakes 162 (3) Mark Mathews (Guyana, b. 1937) Mortal 165 (1) Mervyn Morris (Jamaica, b. 1937) Valley Prince 166 (1) Peelin Orange 166 (1) Muse 167 (1) Velma Pollard (Jamaica, b. 1937) Beware the Naked Man Who Offers you a Shirt 168 (2) Lourdes Casal (Cuba, 1938--1981) Poem 170 (1) E.A. Markham (Montserrat, b. 1939) A History Without Suffering 171 (1) Hurricane, Volcano, Mass Flight 172 (2) Dennis Scott (Jamaica, 1939--1991) Uncle Time 174 (1) Epitaph 174 (1) Apocalypse Dub 175 (2) Maria Arrillaga (Puerto Rico, b. 1940) To the Poets of My Generation 177 (2) Malik (Grenada, b. 1940) Instant Ting 179 (3) Olive Senior (Jamaica, b. 1941) Birdshooting Season 182 (1) Brief Lives 182 (1) Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird 183 (3) Anthony McNeil (Jamaica, 1941--1996) Ode to Brother Joe 186 (1) The Kingdom of Myth 187 (2) Arnold Harrichand Itwaru (Guyana, b. 1942) body rites (chant five) 189 (2) Belkis Cuza Male (Cuba, b. 1942) My Mother's Homeland 191 (1) Pam Mordecai (Jamaica, b. 1942) Last Lines 192 (1) Joseph Polius (Martinique, b. 1942) There are those who . . . 193 (2) Christine Craig (Jamaica, b. 1943) St Anne Saturday 195 (2) Heather Royes (Jamaica, b. 1943) I No Longer Read Poetry 197 (1) Pedro Perez Sarduy (Cuba, b. 1943) the POET 198 (7) Wayne Brown (Trinidad, b. 1944) The Witness 205 (1) Faustin Charles (Trinidad, b. 1944) The Red Robber 206 (1) Amryl Johnson (Trinidad, 1944--2001) Far and High 207 (2) Jeanette Miller (Dominican Republic, b. 1944) Because Death is This Feeling 209 (1) Nancy Morejon (Cuba, b. 1944) Black Woman 210 (1) April 211 (1) Mother 212 (1) Grenadian Woman 213 (1) Jesus Cos Causse (Cuba, b. 1945) I Could Say 214 (1) Cyril Dabydeen (Guyana, b. 1945) Returning 215 (2) McDonald Dixon (St Lucia, b. 1945) Roseau---The Forgotten Village 217 (1) Rooplal Monar (Guyana, b. 1945) The Cowherd 218 (1) Michelle Cliff (Jamaica, b. 1946) The Land of Look Behind 219 (2) Lorna Goodison (Jamaica, b. 1947) For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength) 221 (2) Ground Doves 223 (1) The yard man: An election poem 224 (1) Praise to the mother of Jamaican art 225 (1) Jean Goulbourne (Jamaica, b. 1947) Sunday Crosses 226 (2) Mark McWatt (Guyana, b. 1947) Nightfall: Kangaruma 228 (2) Marlene Nourbese Philip (Trinidad, b. 1947) Fluttering Lives 230 (1) Hazel Simmons-McDonald (St Lucia, b. 1947) Parasite 231 (1) Mirta Yanez (Cuba, b. 1947) The Duties of Womanhood 232 (1) Cynthia James (Trinidad, b. 1948) Woman Descendant 233 (2) John Robert Lee (St Lucia, b. 1948) Vocation 235 (1) Lusca 236 (3) Edgar Cairo (Surinam, 1948--2000) Child of a New Tide 239 (1) Jit Narain (Surinam, b. 1948) Working all day, dreaming at night 240 (1) Chiqui Vicioso (Dominican Republic, b. 1948) Dona Mariana 241 (2) John Agard (Guyana, b. 1949) Pan Recipe 243 (1) Limbo Dancer at Immigration 244 (2) Brian Chan (Guyana, b. 1949) To a Daughter 246 (1) Victor Questel (Trinidad, 1949--1982) Judge Dreadword 247 (1) Grandad 248 (4) Julia Alvarez (Dominican Republic, b. 1950) Bilingual Sestina 252 (1) Last Trees 253 (2) Merle Collins (Grenada, b. 1950) Nearly Ten Years Later 255 (3) Grace Nichols (Guyana, b. 1950) The Fat Black Woman Remembers 258 (1) Blackout 258 (2) Gustavo Perez-Firmat (Cuba, b. 1950) Lime Cure 260 (1) Marilene Phipps (Haiti, b. 1950) My Life in Nerette 261 (2) Lillian Allen (Jamaica/Canada b. 1951) Mrs 263 (1) Honor Ford-Smith (Jamaica, b. 1951) Swimming Lesson 264 (1) Lala the Dressmaker 265 (2) Tato Laviera (Puerto Rico, b. 1951) AmeRican 267 (2) Judith Ortiz Cofer (Puerto Rico, b. 1952) Under the Knife 269 (1) Kendel Hippolyte (St Lucia, b. 1952) Revo Lyric 270 (1) Bedtime Story, W.I. 271 (2) Linton Kwesi Johnson (Jamaica/UK, b. 1952) Sense outta Nansense 273 (1) Dread Beat An Blood 274 (2) Jane King (St Lucia, b. 1952) Fellow Traveller 276 (2) Mutabaruka (Jamaica, b. 1952) dis poem 278 (3) Oku Onuora (Jamaica, b. 1952) Pressure Drop 281 (2) Reina Maria Rodriguez (Cuba, b. 1952) When a Woman Doesn't Sleep 283 (1) Dionne Brand (Trinidad, b. 1953) Return 284 (2) Margaret Gill (Barbados, b. 1953) Poem for a Migrant Worker 286 (1) Mbala (Jamaica, b. 1953) The History of Dub Poetry 287 (2) Opal Palmer Adisa (Jamaica, b. 1954) Madness Disguises Sanity 289 (1) Mahadai Das (Guyana, 1954--2003) They Came in Ships 290 (2) Maggie Harris (Guyana, b. 1954) Doors 292 (1) Michael Smith (Jamaica, 1954--1983) Give Me Little Dub Music 293 (2) Me Cyaan Believe It 295 (3) Peggy Carr (St Vincent, b. c.1955) Flight of the Firstborn 298 (1) David Dabydeen (Guyana, b. 1955) Coolie Odyssey 299 (5) Anthony Kellman (Barbados, b. 1955) After the Rain 304 (2) Rachel Manley (Jamaica, b. 1955) Memory 306 (1) Roi Kwabena (Trinidad, b. 1956) Letter from Sea Lots 307 (1) Jean `Binta' Breeze (Jamaica, b. 1957) Riddym Ravings (The Mad Woman's Poem) 308 (3) Ratoon 311 (3) Martin Espada (Puerto Rico, b. 1957) Colibri 314 (1) Imagine the Angels of Bread 315 (2) Sasenarine Persaud (Guyana, b. 1958) Postcard to a Sister in South America 317 (1) Geoffry Philp (Jamaica, b. 1958) Standpipe 318 (1) Lasana M. Sekou (Aruba/St Martin, b. 1959) Liberation Theology 319 (3) Fred D'Aguiar (Guyana, b. 1960) Frail Deposits 322 (3) Jose Marmol (Dominican Republic, b. 1960) Abdication 325 (2) Marcia Douglas (Jamaica/UK, b. 1961) The Ascania Docks in Southampton, circa 1955 327 (2) Kwame Dawes (Ghana/Jamaica, b. 1962) Shook Foil 329 (1) Sunday Morning 330 (2) Liminal 332 (2) Virgil Suarez (Cuba, b. 1962) Diaspora 334 (1) Jennifer Rahim (Trinidad, b. 1963) Leaving the Coast 335 (1) Claudia Rankine (Jamaica, b. 1963) She 336 (1) Naomi Ayala (Puerto Rico, b. c.1965) Personal History 337 (2) Patrick Sylvain (Haiti, b. 1966) Flash Back 339 (1) Adrian Castro (Cuba, b. 1967) Canto of the Tyrant Who Hangs Himself 340 (3) Vahni Capildeo (Trinidad, b. 1973) In Cunaripo 343 (2) Mirlande Jean-Gilles (Haiti, b. 1973) My Grandmother Danced 345 (4) Notes on Contributors 349 (31) Sources and Acknowledgements 380 (9) A-Z Index of Contributors 389 (5) Index of Contributors by Country 394 (5) Index of Poem Titles 399 (3) Index of First Lines 402