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Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse, in English

Gathers worksongs, chants, songs and poems by a variety of Caribbean authors and briefly discusses the region's literary traditions (view table of contents)

By Paula Burnett (editor)

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9780140585117 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1986), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Gathers worksongs, chants, songs and poems by a variety of Caribbean authors and briefly discusses the region's literary traditions

Voice Print

A collection of poems, songs, elegies, laments, calypsos, and other forms expressing the wide range and different styles of the oral tradition in West Indian poetry

By Stewart Brown and Mervyn Morris

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9780582786295 | Addison-Wesley, April 1, 1990, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems, songs, elegies, laments, calypsos, and other forms expressing the wide range and different styles of the oral tradition in West Indian poetry

Creation Fire: A Cafra Anthology of Caribbean Women's Poetry

By Ramabai Espinet (editor)

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9780920813027 | Inland Womensource, March 1, 1991, cover price $19.95

Crossing Water: Contemporary Poetry of the English-Speaking Caribbean

Gathers poems by thirty-seven contemporary Caribbean writers

By Anthony Kellman (editor)

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9780912678856 | Greenfield Review Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Gathers poems by thirty-seven contemporary Caribbean writers

Caribbean Poetry Now

Product Description: The second edition of Brown's lively and well-received anthology offers an unparalleled selection of poetry from the region. It has been expanded to reflect new directions and developments in West Indian poetry.

By Stewart Brown (editor)

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9780340573792 | 2 sub edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 15, 1995), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The second edition of Brown's lively and well-received anthology offers an unparalleled selection of poetry from the region.

Palinurus Suite

By Mark McMorris

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9780945926375 | Paradigm Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $5.00

9780945926382 | Signed edition (Paradigm Pr, December 1, 1992), cover price $12.00

The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals

Product Description: Daughter of a black slaveholder father, Anne Hart Gilbert and Elizabeth Hart Thwaites were among the first educators of slaves and free African Caribbeans in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Antigua. These members of the "free colored" community who married white men and played an active role as educators, antislavery activists, and Methodist evangelicals were also among the first African Caribbean female writers...read more

By Moira Ferguson (editor), Anne Hart Gilbert (editor) and Elizabeth Hart Thwaites (editor)

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9780803219847 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Daughter of a black slaveholder father, Anne Hart Gilbert and Elizabeth Hart Thwaites were among the first educators of slaves and free African Caribbeans in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Antigua.

Verbal Riddim: The Politics and Aesthetics of African-Caribbean Dub Poetry

By Christian Habekost

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9789051835496 | Rodopi Bv Editions, September 1, 1993, cover price $72.00

No Hickory No Dickory No Dock: Caribbean Nursery Rhymes

Caribbean renditions of nursery rhymes apply the lilting, musical beats of the region to familiar favorites and are accompanied by colorful scratchboard illustrations that highlight such images as Mother Goose playing the marimba.

By John Agard, Cynthia Jabar (illustrator) and Grace Nichols

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9781564021564 | Candlewick Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A collection of rhymes, both original and traditional, that evoke the rhythms and language of the Caribbean

Caribbean New Voices 1: A Forum for Caribbean Writing

By Stewart Brown (editor)

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9780582237025 | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, September 1, 1995, cover price $15.73

Black + Blues

A collection of poems includes 'Fetish,' 'Totem,' 'Caliban,' 'Springblade,' 'Bread,' 'Xango,' and 'Koker' (view table of contents)

By Kamau Brathwaite

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9780811213134 | Rev sub edition (New Directions, October 1, 1995), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems includes 'Fetish,' 'Totem,' 'Caliban,' 'Springblade,' 'Bread,' 'Xango,' and 'Koker'

The Art of Kamau Brathwaite

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By Stewart Brown (editor)

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9781854110923 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, March 1, 1996, cover price $49.95

9781854111272 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, March 1, 1996, cover price $22.95

Hot Earth Cold Earth

Product Description: In this large selection by one of Britain's leading poets and cultural activists, the new poems celebrate the divided world of a lifelong outsider, a poet of two tongues, 'Hot Earth' Creole and 'Cold Earth' English. Growing up in Jamaica, Berry felt as much disturbed by his African background as by the European slave-trade and its aftermath in his childhood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By James Berry

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9781852243302 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, March 1, 1996, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In this large selection by one of Britain's leading poets and cultural activists, the new poems celebrate the divided world of a lifelong outsider, a poet of two tongues, 'Hot Earth' Creole and 'Cold Earth' English.

An Introduction to West Indian Poetry

Product Description: This introduction to West Indian poetry is written for readers making their first approach to the poetry of the Caribbean written in English. It offers a comprehensive literary history from the 1920s to the 1980s, with particular attention to the relationship of West Indian poetry to European, African and American literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Laurence A. Breiner

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9780521583312 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: This introduction to West Indian poetry is written for readers making their first approach to the poetry of the Caribbean written in English.

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9780521587129 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $54.99

Poetic Investigations: Singing the Holes in History

Product Description: This text studies five contemporary writers whose radical engagements with poetic form and political content shed new light on issues of race, class and gender. In a detailed reading of three American poets - Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey and Lyn Hejinian, and two Caribbean poets, Kamau Brathwaite and M...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Paul Naylor

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9780810116672 | Northwestern Univ Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $66.00 | About this edition: Poetic Investigations studies five contemporary writers whose radical engagements with poetic form and political content shed new light on issues of race, class, and gender.

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9780810116689 | Northwestern Univ Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This text studies five contemporary writers whose radical engagements with poetic form and political content shed new light on issues of race, class and gender.

The Poetics of Empire: A Study of James Grainger's the Sugar-Cane

Product Description: First published in 1764, The Sugar-Cane is a major work in the history of Anglophone Caribbean literature. It is the only poem written in the Caribbean before the Twentieth Century to achieve a place in the Western 'canon' Grainger sought to interpret hi (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John Gilmore

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9780485115390 | Athlone Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $79.95

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9780485121483 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 1, 2000, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: First published in 1764, The Sugar-Cane is a major work in the history of Anglophone Caribbean literature.

Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews With Anglophone Caribbean Poets

Product Description: Before the Caribbean-inflected spoken-word poetry of the 1990s, epitomized by poetry slams at the Nuyorican Poets CafÃ© 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kwame Dawes (editor)

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9780813919454 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Before the Caribbean-inflected spoken-word poetry of the 1990s, epitomized by poetry slams at the Nuyorican Poets CafÃ© in Manhattan, there was reggae.

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9780813919461 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $29.50 | About this edition: Before the Caribbean-inflected spoken-word poetry of the 1990s, epitomized by poetry slams at the Nuyorican Poets CafÃ© in Manhattan, there was reggae.

Ancestors: A Reinvention of Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/Self

Offers a revised edition of Brathwaite's 'Mother Poem,' 'Sun Poem,' and 'X/Self' poems which explore the author's family and childhood in Barbados and his experiences with slavery and colonialism.

By Kamau Brathwaite

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9780811214483 | New Directions, June 1, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Offers a revised edition of Brathwaite's 'Mother Poem,' 'Sun Poem,' and 'X/Self' poems which explore the author's family and childhood in Barbados and his experiences with slavery and colonialism.

Just Clowning Around: Two Stories

Product Description: Small Brown Bear and her dad clown around on a bike . . . and bump into trouble! What will Dad do?

By Steven MacDonald

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9780152025182 | Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 2000, cover price $3.95 | also contains White Egrets: Poems | About this edition: A young bear and her dad, both circus clowns, enjoy spending time together doing tricks and going for a bicycle ride.

School and Library:

9780152048167 | Harcourt Childrens Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A young bear and her dad, both circus clowns, enjoy spending time together doing tricks and going for a bicycle ride.

Reinforced:

9780606289467 | Demco Media, August 1, 2003, cover price $12.45 | also contains Just Clowning Around: Two Stories | About this edition: Small Brown Bear and her dad clown around on a bike .

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9780613663625 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Lamplight Teller: Selected Poems

By Berkley W. Semple

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9780972359399 | Olai Pr, April 30, 2004, cover price $12.00

The Prodigal

Poetic journey through multiple landscapes ranging from New York, Europe, and the West Indies uses the concept of exile to explore themes about the past and identity.

By Derek Walcott

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9780374237431 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 7, 2004, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Poetic journey through multiple landscapes ranging from New York, Europe, and the West Indies uses the concept of exile to explore themes about the past and identity.

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9780374530167 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 21, 2006, cover price $12.00

Gardening in the Tropics

Product Description: Gardening in the Tropics contains a rich Caribbean world in poems offered to readers everywhere. Olive Senior's rich vein of humour can turn wry and then sharp in satire of colour-consciousness, class-consciousness and racism. But her predominant tone is the verbal equivalent of a pair of wide-open arms...read more

By Olive Senior

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9781897178003 | Insomniac Pr, October 30, 2005, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Gardening in the Tropics contains a rich Caribbean world in poems offered to readers everywhere.

Night Vision: Poems

Product Description: Because we see with history,it is difficult to see through it. And yet we mustor we become it, become nothing else but history.It is this challenge, laid down in the powerful title poem of this collection, which Kendel Hippolyte takes up in Night Vision...read more

By Kendel Hippolyte

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9780810151628 | Triquarterly Books, December 9, 2005, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Because we see with history,it is difficult to see through it.

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9780810151635 | Triquarterly Books, January 4, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Because we see with history,it is difficult to see through it.

Collected Verse Of Cecile Norma Musson

By Cecile Norma Musson

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9781571974426 | Ivy House Pub Group, January 1, 2006, cover price $15.95

The Fifth Figure

Chronicles the lives of five generations of Caribbean and Black British women of mixed ancestry. Steeped in the history of Jamaica, this book develops the possibilities of narrative, voice and rhythm, offering a vision of Caribbean lives and culture.

By Jean Breeze

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9781852247324 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, March 15, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the lives of five generations of Caribbean and Black British women of mixed ancestry.

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