 Wheel
and Come Again, an anthology of reggae poetry by Kwame
Senu Neville Dawes (Editor)
This is an
anthology to delight both lovers of reggae and lovers of poetry
which sings light as a feather, heavy as lead over the bedrock
of drum and bass. If in the past Caribbean poetry seemed split
between the English literary tradition and the oral performance
of dub poetry, Wheel and Come Again brings together work which
combines reggae's emotional immediacy, prophetic vision, fire
and brimstone protest and sensuous eroticism with all the traditional
resources of poetry: verbal inventiveness, richness of metaphor
and craft in the handling of patterns of rhythm, sound and poetic
structure...
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