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kikireads's review
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This essay collection is a treasure, glorious evidence that to forego jargon and esoteric theory does not mean a sacrifice of intellectual integrity and complexity. Most of these pieces on Caribbean novelists, playwrights, and poets (including himself) originally appeared in a range of academic publications yet all made me feel as if I were in a room with Morris and he spoke to me directly with precision, a sometimes wry critical eye, and palpable sensitivity. Along with familiar writers like Selvon and Brathwaite I learned of others I'd not heard of before like Pauline Melville and others I'd heard of but knew very little about like Mikey Smith. I especially appreciated how he assessed performance in dub poets like Mutabaruka and an all-around entertainer like Paul Keens-Douglas In a single essay, he radically changed how I viewed national attitudes towards Louise Bennett.
I am eternally grateful to Ian Randle Publishers for releasing this work: it is exactly the kind of title of immense value to the Caribbean literary community that foreign publishers might have never published.
I am eternally grateful to Ian Randle Publishers for releasing this work: it is exactly the kind of title of immense value to the Caribbean literary community that foreign publishers might have never published.
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