Black Sand - Edward Baugh

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Résumé :
A major Caribbean poet casts a shrewd eye over a Jamaica characterised by gated communities, religious enthusiasm, and a black majority still struggling against the wrongs of the past.

Biographie:
Edward Baugh is a poet and a literary critic whose distinguished career has been devoted to West Indian literature. He taught at the University of the West Indies for more than 30 years....

Sommaire:
Bringing together previously published works and original poems from poet Edward Baugh--one of the most instantly recognizable voices in Caribbean poetry with his dry wit, poise, and elegance--these stunning poems cover a wide swath of subjects, including race, history, cricket, love, the academic life, and the consolations of natural beauty. With shrewdly analytical eye, additional works look at a modern Jamaica that at once includes the worlds of urbane polish, gated communities, religious enthusiasm, and a black majority still struggling to overcome the wrongs inflicted in the past. Above all, the subject of Baugh's poetry is the poem, and its struggle to come into existence as a moment of clarity in a world of chaos....