Words Need Love Too - 2nd Edition by Kamau Brathwaite (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Words Need Love Too represents both a summation - a drawing together of concerns that the poet has explored in his writings through the previous 'years of salt' - and a turning point, a hopeful new beginning. With hindsight we can already see the shadow of events like "nine eleven" - which happened when Brathwaite was in New York, living only blocks away from the World Trade Centre - that inevitably drives the poet and his writing back into explorations of the dread spectrum.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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. The poems in this volume are "dreamstories." It is a harvest of dreams of a new world, cleansed in ancestral blood, loved without reservation by those born into it and with it, so that through it they can shape a new reality, a new desitiny. No other poet, living or dead, makes us participants in, and co-celebrants of the liturgy of the word, like Brathwaite.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Taking place in Bathwaite's post-"Time of Salt" flowering (between 1986 and 1990, his wife died, a hurrican destroyed his house in Kingston, and he was left for dead by burglars in his apartment). Brathwaite has been consistently aggressive in his poetics, and this book represents an iteration of his "Namestoura/Sycorax Video/tidalectics" style, which aspires to perform a cultural rehabilitation of the European and West African seeds in the Caribbean.--D.H. Tracy "Poetry "<br>
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