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By Raymond Ramcharitar

A poetic approach to revising and re-creating Caribbean mythology on an epic scale, this book-length autobiographical poem in five parts addresses the large themes of the Caribbean experience: history, migration, myth, and domestic love. The different movements vary in style and tone--from blank verse, to terza rima, to heroic couplets--but are unified by the voice of the single narrator, which changes over time. Prefaced by a passage from the Ramayana, the poem begins on the plains of Caroni, where the narrator traces his beginnings, and moves to an overnight bus journey through Europe, a sojourn in Toronto, and an account of a broken marriage, addressed to the narrator's daughter. The series of poems ends with "The Last Avatar," a miniepic which recasts the Caribbean as a Hindu eschatological myth and places its heroes as the holy trinity of Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu in Caribbean terms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845232127
• ISBN13: 9781845232122
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.1"