 Kamau
Brathwaite
was born in Barbados in 1930. He graduated from England's Cambridge
University with a B.A. in history in his early 20s, and received
his Ph.D. from the University of Sussex in 1968. He lived and worked
in Ghana from 1955 to 1962. From the "rooflessness" of his sojourn
in Europe, Brathwaite found a rootedness in Africa that would sharpen
his sense of "wholeness" and shape his awareness, making him what
the Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor once called "a poet of the total
African consciousness." The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy (1973)
and the second trilogy, Mother Poem, Sun Poem (1982) and X/Self
(1987) are among Brathwaite's published works that surged his international
standing, but since Middle Passages (1992), the literary world has
seemingly been expecting another major volume of poetry from him.
Words Need Love Too (2000) represents that long-awaited collection.
Brathwaite, the distinguished Caribbean poet, historian and literary
critic, lives in Barbados at Cow Pastor, part of an estate that
includes the sacred burial ground of his ancestors that were enslaved.
He has taught at the University of the West Indies and is currently
lecturing at New York University. Awards and honors for his poetry
and non-fiction include the Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship,
Bussa Award, Casa de las Americas Prize for Literary Criticism,
and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. |
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Words
Need Love Too
by Kamau Brathwaite
Price: US$15
Paperback, poetry, 70 + xx pp., 5.25"x8",
(2000)
ISBN: 0-913441-47-3
Words Need Love Too represents,
perhaps, Kamau
Brathwaite's most concentrated effort at fashioning a
new literary tradition out of the fragmented
pieces/rhythms/nation languages that form the New
World. No other poet, living or dead, makes us
participants in, and co-celebrants of the liturgy of the
word, like Brathwaite. This is the long-awaited
collection from Kamau Brathwaite. |
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