Koker

by Rooplall Monar

The poems in this collection ask how meaning and creative sustenance can be found in the tensions between a broken Indian heritage, the harsh history of labour on the sugar estates and the native tradition of an Indo-Guyanese 'bung coolie' culture. They attempt to find a way forward from a state of limbo - which is both a state of placelessness between ancestral Indian memories (which can no longer sustain) and repulsion from the harsh history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094883305X
• ISBN13: 9780948833052
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 56 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 7.9"