About Us Submission Subscription Advertising Resources Merchandise Search Kwame Dawes, ed. Ghana, Jamaica, Canada, the United States, . . . The anthology contains poems by well-known poets such as Linton Kwesi Johnson and Kamau Brathwaite as well as by lesser known and younger poets. The majority of the poems profoundly communicate rhythm, feeling, and thought. While Rasta and race are repeated themes in these poems, Bob Marley is also celebrated often for both style and sense.
Several poems testify to the spiritual strength of reggae.
The poem tells us what it means to be black, woman, poor, and immigrant all in one. There are not only rhythms here but also revelations. Unorthodox verse styles, such as the multiple column poems of Brian Meeks and the prose eulogy for reggae by Vijay Steede, make their own statement of difference and comradeship. Sasenaraine Persaud is a novelist, poet, and short story writer of Indian descent. He was born in Guyana, and he migrated to Canada and now lives in the United States.