Ancestors

Ancestors startlingly reinvents one of the most important long poems of our hemisphere. Here in a single volume is Kamau Brathwaite's long unavailable, landmark trilogy--Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/Self (1977, 1982, and 1987)--now completely revised and expanded by the author. With its "Video Sycorax" typographic inventions and linguistic play, Ancestors liberates both the language and the new-Caliban vision of the poet. In its fresh and more experimental form the trilogy embodies the recapture (what the poet has called the "intercovery") of Brathwaite's African/Caribbean ancestry as a possession of power and renewal, even as it plumbs the deep tonalities of enslavement, oppression, and colonial dispossession.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 06/17/2001
ISBN: 9780811214483
Pages: 473
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.04w x 0.89d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/01/2001 pg. 89