Born to Slow Horses

by Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Book Overview

New work by the co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement

Winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize (2006)

Kamau Brathwaite's Born to Slow Horses is a series of poetic meditations on islands and exile, language and ritual, and the force of personal and historical passions and griefs. These poems are haunted, figuratively and literally, by spirits of the African diaspora and drenched in the colors, sounds,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819567469
• ISBN13: 9780819567468
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up