Words Need Love Too

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Kamau Brathwaite

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Salt Modern Poets

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"Words Need Love Too" represents both a summation - a drawing together of concerns that the poet has explored in his writings through the previous 'years of salt' - and a turning point, a hopeful new beginning. With hindsight we can already see the shadow of events like "nine eleven" - which happened when Brathwaite was in New York, living only blocks away from the World Trade Centre - that inevitably drives the poet and his writing back into explorations of the dread spectrum. But for the optimistic epithalamium moment of 'Words Need Love Too' the visionary celebration of poems like 'Agoue' again seems both possible and important to this poet whose early work had been as much about celebrating connection and the possibilities inherent in the Caribbean's rediscovery of its African heritage as it had been concerned to chronicle the barbarities and hurts of the process of cultural alienation that made such a rediscovery necessary. In terms of the prevailing tone of Brathwaite's later writing that optimistic moment may be short lived but "Words Need Love Too" serves as an important reminder of the emotional and spiritual range of this great Caribbean poet's work.

Author Biography:

Kamau Brathwaite was born in Barbados in 1930. He graduated from Cambridge University with a B.A. in history in the early '50s, and received his Ph.D from the University of Sussex in 1968. He lived and worked in Ghana from 1955 to 1962. The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy (1973), the second trilogy, Mother Poem, Sun Poem (1982) and X/Self (1987) defined Brathwaite's international reputation. He has taught at the University of the West Indies and is currently lecturing at New York University. He lives New York and in CowPastor, Barbados. Stewart Brown is Reader in African and Caribbean Literatures in the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham. He taught in Jamaica for several years, at Bayero University in Nigeria, and briefly at the UWI in Barbados. He has edited major anthologies of contemporary African and Caribbean writing and published books and essays on aspects of contemporary West African and West Indian poetry, including studies of the poets Derek Walcott, Martin Carter and Kamau Brathwaite.

Release date Australia

September 1st, 2004

Author

Kamau Brathwaite

Collection

Australia

Audience

General (US: Trade)

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Introduction by Stewart Brown

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From 13 to 21 years

Pages

132

Series

Salt Modern Poets

Dimensions

140x216x7

ISBN-13

9781876857493

Product ID

1967628

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