Edward Kamau Brathwaite (born May 11, 1930) is one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon. Brathwaite is the 2006 International Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, for his volume of poetry, Born to Slow Horses. A holder of a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex and co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM), Brathwaite's name is seminal for a literary critic, scholar, or student concerned with Caribbean Literature, History and Culture.
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Calypso
From The Rwanda Poems
'It is not enough'
'Brother man the rasta man'
Negus
Kamau Brathwaite at the Bowery Poetry Club
Caliban
Nation Language and other Revolutions
'The making of the drum'
"The two curved sticks of the drummer'
'The gourds and the rattles'
'How then shall we succeed?'
The Gong
Atumpan
04-Brathwaite-Angel
Introduction
'The gong gong'
'There is no face'
'In a little shanty town'
'95 percent of my people'
'Limbo'
'Shango'
Namsetoura
The Twist
Angel-Engine
[And When I Look Up Again...]
Elaine Savory-Introduction
Rights of Passage
The visibility trigger
Masks
Poem for Nicolás Guillén
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