Literary Nonfiction. Music. Caribbean Studies. "CARIBBEAN COUNTERPOINT explores the writings of Lasana M. Sekou, a highly eloquent poet and lyrical performer. Dr. Florian's study delves deep into not only the poetry but also into the fiction and ess...
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Poetry. Drama. Carribean Studies. Women's Studies. "NOMAD, a survivors' handbook, a travellers' guide for anyone who has known the burden of a life bundled into bags. Weekes' word journeys conjure...and reveal the inner world of the eternal wanderer...
Poetry. Caribbean Studies. Latinx Studies. African & African American Studies. "There is a raw urgency to these poems within the 'protocol' set, the 'name' of each echoes marine distress-calling, a plea to humanity; recounting the travails during th...
Fiction. Young Adult. Women's Studies. PLASTERED IN PRETTY is a dystopian tale. N.C. Marks activates, deactivates at will the Alice in Wonderland syndrome in a Caribbean paradise. Facebook and Instagram are virtual religious icons. A pyromaniac burn...
Poetry. Music. Erotica. "A grown-up literary confection that does what verse written by men seems to seldom do these days: celebrate male strength by exploring in all its big-hearted glory, ...its vulnerability, honesty... and, yes, avid beauty."—Sh...
Literary Nonfiction. SCHOOLBOY IN WARTIME is a true World War II story, centered in Alkmaar, a Netherlands city founded in 1254. The author recalls his family lore; being asked to prepare vestments for a Nazi "soldier priest" during the occupation o...
Fiction. Children's Literature. With color illustrations by Reuben Vanterpool. "TI KOKO AND KUSH KUSH is a brilliantly crafted story about a happy little coconut tree and a friendly, wise yam and the power of friendship and camaraderie in a small co...
Literary Nonfiction. Caribbean Studies. A first and fascinating labor of love and scholarship highlighting, in text and illustrations, St. Martin's people, history, culture and natural environment. Extensive bibliography."NATIONAL SYMOBLS stands out...
Drama. Performance Studies. THE UNSEEN LETTER is set in a fictitious country of islands, the storyline centers around a showdown over sovereign symbols of identity. Here's also a bid to bridge the mundane of individual lives with a monumental moment...
Poetry. Drama. Caribbean Studies. Finalist for the Bocas Prize. Typeset "performance" in Brathwaite's trademark Sycorax Video Style. LIVITICUS is "a monument to sorrow that cherishes our origins . as we live our lives of Modern distraction," accordi...
Poetry. The 26 writers in WHERE I SEE THE SUN - CONTEMPORARY POETRY IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS (TORTOLA | VIRGIN GORDA | ANEGADA | JOST VAN DYKE) can each speak for themselves and arguably, creatively, for the nation out of which they are writing."A lost...
Poetry. Caribbean Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. African & African American Studies. "An important new work of world literature... an ambitious book."—Xu Xi"BOOK OF THE DEAD risks a new kind of pan-Caribbean poetry. It is not merely that it reaches...
Poetry. Drama. Latino/Latina Studies. Native American Studies. Music. Comparative Literature. Performance Text. Translation. Set on the day that the Admiral of the Sea arrives in what would come to be called the New World. COLUMBUS, THE MOOR is perf...
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Travel. This is an exploration into an obsession. THE ADULTEROUS CITIZEN contemplates the feeling of belonging, while yearning for the seduction of elsewhere. Tis...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. WHERE I SEE THE SUN – CONTEMPORARY POETRY IN ANGUILLA gathers a bounteous bunch of voices, 43 poets intent on entering the choir that would intone a new song for Anguilla, carved out of its history, its po...