Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets
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Before the Caribbean-inflected spoken-word poetry of the 1990s, epitomized by poetry slams at the Nuyorican Poets Caf in Manhattan, there was reggae. In the past thirty years, most Caribbean poetry written in English has come to the shores of the United States on waves of music, in the lyrics of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Burning Spear. Kwame Dawes, himself a musician and poet, is not surprised by this phenomenon. The region's political and cultural...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813919460
ISBN13:9780813919461
Release Date:December 2000
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:244 Pages
Weight:0.84 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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