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The Leaf in His Ear Left, the golden leaf bears from his ear. At eighteen, Bushman fighting to control diamonds in his glass head. The waters of the river swirl by. I and I Rastaman, with knotty India hair, has long ago ceased. The good Lord swallowed him up. Into Guiana forests. North-west. Dogs bark [...]
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Edgar Mittelholzer For the past thirty years Mittelholzer disappeared totally, his books obtainable only second hand, and his reputation solidified as at best being that of a literary ancestor, a pot-boiling writer obsessed with sex and race-mixing and given to right-wing, authoritarian views . . . — At the Caribbean Literary Salon blog, Peepal Tree [...]
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Self-portrait by Dhiradj Ramsamoedj, stenciled in an old novel; part of his Adjie Gilas installation. Photograph by Christopher Cozier This week’s additions to the current issue of the CRB look south and north at a fascinating emerging artist and a major player in Caribbean publishing. “A place to stand” is a portfolio of images from [...]
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