Elegguas

by Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Deeply felt requiems from an internationally celebrated poet

Kamau Brathwaite is a major Caribbean poet of his generation and one of the major world poets of the second half of the twentieth century. Elegguas--a play on "elegy" and "Eleggua," the Yoruba deity of the threshold, doorway, and crossroad--is a collection of poems for the departed. Modernist and post-modernist in inspiration, Elegguas draws together traditions of speaking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819569437
• ISBN13: 9780819569431
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up