No. 12 • May 2007

Image above: Detail of Little Crippled Haiti (2006), by Édouard Duval Carrié; mixed media on aluminium, 48 x 48 inches; courtesy the artist and Bernice Steinbaum Gallery

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A view of one’s own
Brendan de Caires on Selected Poems, by Derek Walcott, ed. Edward Baugh, and Derek Walcott, by Edward Baugh

Whitewash
Anu Lakhan on The Painted Canoe, Going Home to Teach, The Duppy, The Lunatic, The Great Yacht Race, and Dog War, by Anthony C. Winkler, and Out of Order: Anthony Winkler and White West Indian Writing, by Kim Robinson-Walcott

Look homeward
John T. Gilmore on An Intellectual History of the Caribbean, by Silvio Torres-Saillant

Full fathom five
Lisa Allen-Agostini on The New Moon’s Arms, by Nalo Hopkinson

IN BRIEF
• Keith Jardim on Meet Me in Mozambique and At Home with Miss Vanessa, by E.A. Markham
• Nicholas Laughlin on The First West Indies Cricket Tour, ed. Hilary McD. Beckles
• Nicholas Laughlin on Why We Write: Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists, ed. H. Nigel Thomas
• Nicholas Laughlin on DS (2), by Kamau Brathwaite
• Nicholas Laughlin on Caribbean Dreams, by Michael Wissing and Regine Hodeige

ALSO NOTED
Other new and recent books

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NOTEBOOK
• Annie Paul on the 2006 Jamaica National Biennial

POEMS
• First Book of Chronicles and Second Book of Chronicles, by Kei Miller

DOCUMENT
Ti Amos
From Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti, by J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat

LIFE AND TIMES
Remembering Lloyd Best
Personal tributes by Gordon Rohlehr, Christopher Cozier, and Nicholas Laughlin