With verbal urgency and visionary imagination, this collection features the work of one of the Caribbean's most important poets. Presenting what life is like on a small island, vulnerable to the wounded thrashings of world capitalism in crisis--an island where livelihoods are destroyed at the flourish of a Brussel bureaucrat's pen; where Paradise is a tourist cruise ship that reminds the people of their neocolonial status; and where global consumerism has poisoned the ambitions of the young into drugs, crime, and violence--these candid poems are a warning of the perils fragmenting societies and ecologies.

Author: Kendel Hippolyte
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Published: 08/24/2012
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 7.90h x 6.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781845231941

About the Author
Kendel Hippolyte is a poet, a playwright, and a director. He is the author of five books of poetry, including Birthright and Night Vision, and his writing has been featured in various journals, such as the Greenfield Review and the Massachusetts Review, as well as in the anthologies Caribbean Poetry Now and Voiceprint.