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“The road at this hour, that late-night hour/ of road spread wide with silence; that car,/ careful and slow, lone sound of engine/ quarreling with itself…” By Vladimir Lucien, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
Read MoreVladimir Lucien is a St. Lucian writer and critic, whose debut collection of poetry, ‘Sounding Ground’ (Peepal Tree Press, 2014) won the prestigious 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry and the overall Bocas Literary Prize. He is co-editor of Sent Lisi: Poems and Art of Saint Lucia (2014).
“The road at this hour, that late-night hour/ of road spread wide with silence; that car,/ careful and slow, lone sound of engine/ quarreling with itself…” By Vladimir Lucien, celebrating Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
Read More“There is no other figure, in the history of Caribbean poetry, as massive as Kamau Brathwaite.” Vladimir Lucien’s essay on the enduring influence of a towering figure in Caribbean literature.
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