Kamau Brathwaite famously said, “the hurricane does not roar in pentameters.” His antidote to the sweet tyranny of English pentameter was the ‘tidalectics’ of island living (that upgrades Marx’s dialectics to include race and the specificity of place). His "History of the Voice," his trans-Atlantic slave trade as a limbo dancer’s bequest remade in air by the Sahara Harmattan and the Ghanaian talking drum of his works will endure.
Fred D'Aguiar on "Kamau" |
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