Listed in: Black Studies, as BLST-317 | 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 317 [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; and 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
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voiceprint | Longman, 1990 | Stewart Brown | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English | Penguin Global, 2006 | Paula Burnett | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide | Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999 | Robert Pinsky | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Book of Rhymes: The poetics of Hip Hop | Civitas Books, 2017 | Adam Bradley | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature | Routledge, 1996 | Alison Donnell | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Arrivants ( A New World Triology) | Oxford University Press, 1988 | Edward Brathwaite | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 | Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017 | Derek Walcott | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Omeros | Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992 | Derek Walcott | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Strategies (Caribbean Poetry Series) | Sandberry Press, 1989 | Dennis Scott | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion | Carcanet, 2014 | Kei Miller | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| She Who Sleeps with Bones | Peepal Tree Press, 2009 | Tanya Shirley | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| My Mother's Last Dance | SisterVision, 1996 | Honor Ford Smith | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Land to Light On | McClelland & Stewart, 1997 | Dionne Brand | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Approaching Sabbaths | Peepal Tree Press, 2009 | Jennifer Rahim | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Coming up hot: Eight new poets from the Caribbean | Peekash Press, 2015 | Kwame Dawes | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.