Black + Blues (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811213134)

Kamau Brathwaite, who won the 1994 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, has revised his celebrated 1979 Casa de las Americas collection, Black + Blues, for its first edition by a U.S. publisher. A rich, arid, beautiful collection, Black + Blues is cast in three parts -- "Fragments," "Drought," and "Flowers." In Brathwaite's voice, as The Beloit Poetry Journal noted, "the false distinctions between poetry and polemic, between tragic vision and comic insight, between anger and tenderness, here disappear. At last a major poet of our troubled history and troubling time is available to readers in this country." "His dazzling, inventive language, his tragic yet unquenchable vision," as Adrienne Rich declared, "make Kamau Brathwaite one of the most compelling of late 20th century poets."

Author: Kamau Brathwaite
ISBN-10: 0811213137
ISBN-13: 9780811213134
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 12/17/1995
Pages: 70
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.21w x 0.25d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/01/1995 pg. 246