Author: Martin Carter
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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The Guyanese poet Martin Carter (1927-97) was one of the greatest Caribbean writers of the 20th century. This collection of his selected poems and prose discusses race, colonialism, political action and the role of the poet in a postcolonial society.
Author: Martin Carter
Publisher: MacMillan Caribbean
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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As a young socialist in the colony of British Guiana, Martin Carter wrote strong, vigorous poems that connect powerfully with the reader. This book includes some of most notable work.
Author: Martin Carter
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Author: Martin Carter
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Author: Stewart Brown
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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The Guyanese poet Martin Carter was without question one of the major poets of the English language of our time. In the Caribbean, Carter has long been regarded as one of the great poets who chronicled the journey from colonialism to independence, alongside such figures as Aime Cesaire, Derek Walcott, Nicholas Guillen and Kamau Brathwaite. While his earlier poems have become classics of socialist literature, translated into many languages, and are among the foundation stones of Caribbean poetry, they have hardly been acknowledged in more general accounts of poetry in English. It was too easy for lazy critics and anthologists to dismiss him as 'merely' a political poet, one who swore, as he put it in one poem, to use his shirt as 'a banner for the revolution.' In fact, looking at Carter's work overall it is hard to think of a contemporary poet writing in English who showed more concern for craft, who measured his utterance with greater care. His later work, while it never lost its political edge, was more oblique and cerebral than the overtly political poems of his youth. It sits comfortably alongside that of fellow South American poets Valejo, Neruda and Paz. They are his contemporaries in every sense; his work is of that originality, stature and elemental force. This book sets out to celebrate Martin Carter's life and work and to establish a context for reading his poetry. It locates the several facets of Carter's work in the historical and cultural circumstances of his time, in Guyana, in the Caribbean. It includes essays by many leading academics and scholars of Caribbean literature and history. It is distinguished particularly by a collection of responses to Carter's work by other creative writers, both his contemporaries and a younger generation for whom Carter's work and commitment has been a powerful influence on their own thinking and practice. As well as demonstrating the profound respect in which he is held as a writer, what emerges most strongly from this group of essays and poems from his fellow writers is the extent to which he was loved and admired as a man who - despite the turmoil Guyana has experienced over the last fifty years - remained true to his fundamental belief in the dignity of humankind. Contributors include John Agard, Edward Baugh, Kamau Brathwaite, Stewart Brown, Jan Carew, David Dabydeen, Fred D'Aguiar, Kwame Dawes, Michael Gilkes, Stanley Greaves, Wilson Harris, Roy Heath, Kendel Hippolyte, Louis James, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Eusi Kwayana, George Lamming, Ian McDonald, Mark McWatt, Mervyn Morris, Grace Nichols, Ken Ramchand, Gordon Rohlehr, Rupert Roopnaraine, Andew Salkey and many others. "All Are Involved is a difficult book to review. Its contents are so packed, so vital, the statements so well made that paraphrasing them becomes an act of egregious violence. Here is Martin Carter, that "gifted, paradoxical man" (p.45), that "friendly, dreamful, dangerous man" (p.370), analysed, extolled, lavished with the recognition which eluded him in life because of the politics of his poetry, and the poignant truth and moral force of that politics. This book demonstrates how wrong we were to have neglected Carter's voice, how diminished. All Are Involved is a treasure so empowering, a tribute we pay through Martin Carter to all that is human in us. It is a most enduring legacy." Niyi Osundare, World Literature Today Stewart Brown is the editor of several major anthologies as well as critical studies of Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite and Martin Carter.
Author: Martin Carter
Publisher:
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Category : Carter, Martin
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Author: Martin Carter
Publisher:
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Category : Revolutionary poetry, Guyanese
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Stanley Greaves
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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"These poems, some written over the past thirty years, but most of them recently, have as their focal point an act of homage to the great Guyanese poet Martin Carter, voice of a nation. They celebrate a friendship and an example of vision and integrity, and bear witness to Carter's role as the nation's conscience in Guyana's continuing agony of poverty, flood, crime, disputed governance and ethnic divisions." "The poems also investigate the power of words and the necessity and sanctity of the act of making in such circumstances of disorder. Dense and jewelled, these poems create a surreal twist on the everyday and reveal the perceptions of a writer, who is also an artist, sculptor and musician, on the interlinkages between the senses. There is also a profound ecological vision of the correspondences between man and the natural world. The poems are quirky, philosophically enquiring, but have the concreteness of thought rising like 'pond-bottom bubbles'." "The collection is illustrated with half a dozen striking line drawings which demonstrate again Greaves's capacity to say more with less, and, as an afterword an insightful interview with Stanley Greaves by Stewart Brown." --Book Jacket.
Author: Michael Gilkes
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Between the long title poem and the other poems in the collection, Michael Gilkes sets up a dialogue about the nature of memory and the meaning of experience across time.
Author: Steven D. Carter
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231546858
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 373
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How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of composition and literary interpretation used by Japanese poets, scholars, and critics from ancient times to the present, and adds commentary that will assist the modern reader. How to Read a Japanese Poem presents readings of poems by major figures such as Saigyō and Bashō as well as lesser known poets, with nearly two hundred examples that encompass all genres of Japanese poetry. The book gives attention to well-known forms such as haikai or haiku, as well as ancient songs, comic poems, and linked verse. Each chapter provides examples of a genre in chronological order, followed by notes about authorship and other contextual details, including the time of composition, physical setting, and social occasion. The commentaries focus on a central feature of Japanese poetic discourse: that poems are often occasional, written in specific situations, and are best read in light of their milieu. Carter elucidates key concepts useful in examining Japanese poetics as well as the technical vocabulary of Japanese poetic discourse, familiarizing students with critical terms and concepts. An appendix offers succinct definitions of technical terms and essays on aesthetic ideals and devices.
