Product Description: Through a close reading of selected poets born in the Caribbean and working from the 1910s to the present, Lee Jenkins analyzes the language and intertextuality of Caribbean poetry, revising notions of the relationship of this poetry to modernism...read more

Product Description: The late Martin Carter was without doubt one of the Caribbean’s major poets, only less well known than Walcott and Brathwaite because he rarely left his native Guyana. His work has been a major influence as articles included in this critical anthology by Kamau Brathwaite, Derek Walcott, David Dabydeen and many more testify...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume is a critical examination of selected poetry of Edward Kamau Braithwaite, Claire Harris, Olive Senior, and David Dabydeen. The author highlights the power of language as it classifies, divides, informs, and synthesizes the lives of Caribbean peoples throughout the Caribbean basin...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book explores the common links and differences between the works of two modern Caribbean poets, Kamau Braithwaite and Dereck Walcott. The study focuses on the engagement of the two with the mythology of the Caribbean's African experience, defining each poet's contribution to the development of modern Caribbean poetics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)