The ArrivantsA major landmark of 20th century Caribbean poetry. Those who lament that the Age of Giants is over have evidently never read Kamau Brathwaite (Eliot Weinberger) Here, in a single volume, is Kamau Brathwaites early groundbreaking trilogy The Arrivantscontaining Rights of Passage (1967), Masks (1968), and Islands (1969)a brilliant and visionary exploration of the predicament of the poet living in the New World. Through the tension of regional dialect,

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a young writer attends a New Year’s Eve party in hopes of reconnecting with old classmates in a blackly humorous tale set on a single snowy night

like the case studies of Oliver Sacks—a figure whom Itard foreshadows

Tareq observes the growing discontent with the colonial authorities that will erupt in a full-scale rebellion in 1936

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The Lord remains as timely and telling now as ever

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Throughout the Depression and World War II it provided vital sustenance

composer and writer Dick Higgins (1938–98) in the early 1970s to celebrate Something Else Press―the legendary publishing company he founded in 1963 to showcase Fluxus and other experimental artists―this volume

and the timeless caricature of the uncompromising head coach

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