Ancestors

Poetry by Kamau Brathwaite

Ancestors startlingly reinvents one of the most important long poems of our hemisphere. Here in a single volume is Kamau Brathwaite’s long unavailable, landmark trilogy––Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/Self (1977, 1982, and 1987)––now completely revised and expanded by the author. With its “Video Sycorax” typographic inventions and linguistic play, Ancestors liberates both the language and the new-Caliban vision of the poet. In its fresh and more experimental form the trilogy embodies the recapture (what the poet has called the “intercovery”) of Brathwaite’s African/Caribbean ancestry as a possession of power and renewal, even as it plumbs the deep tonalities of enslavement, oppression, and colonial dispossession.

Paperback(published Jun, 01 2001)

ISBN
9780811214483
Price US
22.95
Trim Size
6x9
Page Count
544
Portrait of Kamau Brathwaite

Kamau Brathwaite

Contemporary Caribbean writer