Strange fruit / Kamau Brathwaite.

By:

Brathwaite, Kamau, 1930-2020 [author.]

Leeds, England : Peepal Tree Press, Limited [2016]Description: 122 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781845233082
1845233085

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

811/.54 23

LOC classification:

PR9230.9.B68 S77 2016

Summary: "In its title, Strange Fruit refers to the song of a lynching made famous by Billie Holiday and to the malign persecution that drove Kamau Brathwaite from his New York home to resettlement in his native Barbados. But the title also points to the enigma of beauty created out of that experience of cultural lynching, in poems of urgency, elegance, wisdom and brave humour. ... It is a collection full of beauties of form, phrase and sound, such as in the poem (3z(BSleep Widow(3y (Bwhere instead of finding comfort, the poet and loved woman (3z(Bbull-fight like lock-horm logga-head until the evening pools the grief along our edges/ and cools us to this peace(3y(B, the very sounds in the poem fighting their way towards resolution."--Back cover.

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Books	OCLC Data	Rare Books Floor		Available		0000000036989

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"In its title, Strange Fruit refers to the song of a lynching made famous by Billie Holiday and to the malign persecution that drove Kamau Brathwaite from his New York home to resettlement in his native Barbados. But the title also points to the enigma of beauty created out of that experience of cultural lynching, in poems of urgency, elegance, wisdom and brave humour. ... It is a collection full of beauties of form, phrase and sound, such as in the poem (3z(BSleep Widow(3y (Bwhere instead of finding comfort, the poet and loved woman (3z(Bbull-fight like lock-horm logga-head until the evening pools the grief along our edges/ and cools us to this peace(3y(B, the very sounds in the poem fighting their way towards resolution."--Back cover.

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