The Lazarus Poems

by Kamau Brathwaite and Edward Kamau Brathwaite

A mystical masterwork

This book by the great Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite is characteristically sui generis, vatic, and strange, exhibiting ornery bravura. Tonally and typographically frenetic in the 'sycorax video style' he's been employing for decades, the work examines a major theme appropriate to a great poet in the late stages of his career: that of the afterlife. Brathwaite performs a kind of spiritual/aesthetic GPS in his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819576875
• ISBN13: 9780819576873
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 8.5"