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| Title: | Map of the Island
: Poems |
| Author: | Nigel Darbasie |
| ISBN: | 0888643713 : 9780888643711 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 70 |
| Weight: | .133 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Alberta Press - May 2001 |
| List Price: | 11.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Poetry & poets: from c1900-: Black studies |
A Map of the Island is an extended poetic meditation upon a boy's youth in Trinidad. In these verses we hear the cadences of the West Indies spoken from the distance of the Canadian prairies.
"In its entirety, the collection forms a cultural mosaic taking the reader on a relatively gentle, yet disruptive, post-colonial journey. Separately, each poem stands on its own as an elegantly written snapshot from a single lifetime. The inclusion of actual photos on the back cover complete the autobiographical framework and gives this text a sense of authenticity within a poetic vision that simultaneously threatens and challenges the notion of the authentic at every turn.... A Map of the Island stands alone as a beautifully connected mosaic that also exists separately as individual poems laying claim to the experience of youth - both connected and disconnected by geography, material goods, nation, and colonialist disruption." David Bateman, Canadian Ethnic Studies.
