Listed in: Black Studies, as BLST-252 | English, as ENGL-317
Formerly listed as: BLST-37 | ENGL-52 | ENGL-99
C. Rhonda Cobham-Sander (Section 01)
(Offered as ENGL 317 and BLST 252 [CLA].) A survey of the work of Anglophone Caribbean poets, alongside readings about the political, cultural and aesthetic traditions that have influenced their work. Readings will include longer cycles of poems by Derek Walcott and Edward Kamau Brathwaite; dialect and neoclassical poetry from the colonial period, as well as more recent poetry by women writers and performance (“dub”) poets.
Fall semester. Professor Cobham-Sander.
Section 01
M 08:30 AM - 09:50 AM COOP 101
W 08:30 AM - 09:50 AM COOP 101
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Sounds of Poetry | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Robert Pinsky | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English | Penguin | Paula Burnett | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Arrivants | Oxford University Press | Edward Kamau Brathwaite | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature | Routledge | Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh | TBD | |||
| Selected Poems | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Derek Walcott | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Omeros | Noonday Press | Derel Walcott | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Fat Black Woman's Poems | Virago, London | Grace Nichols | TBD | |||
| Selected Poems | University of Michigan Press | Lorna Goodison | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| My Mother's Last Dance | Sister Vision Press | Honor Ford-Smith | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Land to Light On | McClelland and Stewart | Dionne Brand | TBD | |||
| Approaching Sabbaths | Peepal Tree Press | Jennifer Rahim | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.