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Best Poems of Trinidad : 1943.    

   Compiled by  A.M. Clarke 

" The republication of the first anthology of Trinidadian poetry is a historically significant  moment"

Lisa Allen-Agostini, Trinidad

" A. M . Clarke, himself a poet, has gone into the garden of Trinidad verse and has gathered an excellent collection of flowers. "

 - Sunday Gleaner ( Jamaica.) 

-Caribbean Beat

" When Best Poems fly, they soar!"

-Trinidad Guardian

Song : Poems by Paloma Mohamed

" Song is a collection of poems on the themes of joy and pain, of broken hearts and broken dreams, yet with an almost musical quality as though they were meant to be sung."

Sunday Gleaner 

" Paloma Mohamed's poems are dramatic dialogues of passion and pride on the southern portico of our literary mansion. Song is a melody of love and pain in variable crescendos, intuitive, sensuous and satisfying."

Anthony Joyette, Editor, Kola ( Canada).  

Paloma Mohamed was winner of the prestigious Guyana Prize for Literature in 1998 and 2000. Contents: Foreword A Capella - Voices Alone Farro the Poet Lost Hooker Notes From the Man Next Door Boston in February Lesson One Half-mast Mood of Soweto Exile   Allegro-food for love Epiphany If I Held You Memory in His Eyes This Man Newborn Emale To Know You Still   Virtuoso - the beat of life Beat for my baby J'Ouvert Song Made For This Ah Ent Trippin' It's Alright In Lieu of Time   Diminuendo - ending softly Sometimes in a Storm And Then I Met You Mamita Requiem for the Unborn Journey Half-way There.             Boston in February            Paloma Mohamed   She is thinking how  you do not hear the snow falling yet it covers everything. Everything, this dusting white covers trees, grass, rooftops.   She is wondering how some trees still protest with green beneath all this white, and survive till the summer  and endure thru the spring-light.   She is thinking of the squirrel from the hole in the backyard gathering chestnuts in the spring , before this  whiteness covers everything.   She is thinking how a new - one can be fooled by the sun shining still as the silent white stings,  a could-be- perfect  morning.    She is thinking of  her world and its history   and this world and its ferocity.   And she is thinking  that there must be a  lesson  for her in this  somewhere.

  Literary Garveyism 

" Martin performs a valuable service....[Garvey's literary contribution] has been largely overlooked in studies such as Nathan Huggins's Harlem Renaissance, David Levering Lewis's When Harlem was in Vogue and Jervis Anderson's This Was Harlem." 

CHOICE

The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey Compiled and edited  by Tony Martin

" There are several memorable lines in The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey, that assume the authority of aphorism." 

THE BLACK SCHOLAR

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