No. 16 • May 2008
Image above: Culu Culu (2008), by Michelle Eistrup; photo collage and drawing, Lambda print, 52.42 x 25.51 inches; courtesy the artist
Reviews.
Free individual
Brendan de Caires on C.L.R. James: Cricket’s Philosopher King, by Dave Renton, and Urbane Revolutionary: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for a New Society, by Frank Rosengarten
Words made flesh
Vahni Capildeo on New Caribbean Poetry, ed. Kei Miller; American Fall, by Raymond Ramcharitar; and There Is an Anger that Moves, by Kei Miller
Crossing over
Anu Lakhan on Transgression, Transition, and Transformation: Essays in Caribbean Culture, by Gordon Rohlehr
Family treasure
Shara McCallum on From Harvey River, by Lorna Goodison
Excavating Claudia
Jeremy Taylor on Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, by Carol Boyce Davies
Examined lives
Mervyn Morris on Impossible Flying and A Far Cry from Plymouth Rock, by Kwame Dawes
What’s in a name
Bridget Brereton on Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian, by Maureen Warner-Lewis
Many rivers
Simon Lee on Crossing the Water: A Photographic Guide to the Afro-Cuban Spirit World, by Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh
Under the gun
Mark Lyndersay on Days of Wrath: The 1990 Coup in Trinidad and Tobago, by Raoul Pantin
IN BRIEF
• Nicholas Laughlin on Llewellyn Xavier: His Life and Work, ed. Edward Lucie-Smith
• Nicholas Laughlin on What You Can’t Tell Him, by Sharon Leach
• Jonathan Ali on In Search of Buccaneers, by Anthony Gambrill
ALSO NOTED
Other new and recent books
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READING LIST
For the birds
ON VIEW
Life studies
Melanie Archer on Rachel Amy Rochford’s Golden Glance
TRIBUTE
Final return
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw and J. Michael Dash on the legacy of Aimé Césaire (1913–2008)
LIFE AND TIMES
Remembering London
E.A. Markham (1939–2008) on the city of his youth
In praise of Colly
Edward Baugh on Frank Collymore and the making of West Indian literature
PORTFOLIO
Curator’s Eye III, at the National Gallery of Jamaica
POEMS
• Blood Ties, by Sassy Ross
• Sabbatic, by Fred D’Aguiar