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Black + Blues

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Kamau Brathwaite, who won the 1994 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, has revised his celebrated 1979 Casa de las Americas collection, Black + Blues, for its first edition by a U.S. publisher. A rich, arid, beautiful collection, Black + Blues is cast in three parts — “Fragments,” “Drought,” and “Flowers.” In Brathwaite’s voice, as The Beloit Poetry Journal noted, “the false distinctions between poetry and polemic, between tragic vision and comic insight, between anger and tenderness, here disappear. At last a major poet of our troubled history and troubling time is available to readers in this country.” “His dazzling, inventive language, his tragic yet unquenchable vision,” as Adrienne Rich declared, “make Kamau Brathwaite one of the most compelling of late 20th century poets.”

ISBN-13: 9780811213134

Media Type: Paperback(Subsequent)

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Publication Date: 12-17-1995

Pages: 69

Product Dimensions: 5.20(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.30(d)

Series: Paperbook Series #815

Kamau Brathwaite was born in Barbados in 1930. Co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement, Brathwaite has received numerous awards, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the Casa de las Americas Prize. He is currently a professor of comparative literature at New York University, and shares his time between CowPastor, Barbados, and New York City.