Book of The Dead

"BOOK OF THE DEAD risks a new kind of pan-Caribbean poetry. It is not merely that it reaches into the entire region's space and history. Its verse plays with the whole Caribbean language spectrum: here fragments in Spanish, there across the Afro-English spectrum, to scraps of French, Dutch, Haitian, and Papiamento. Sekou weaves a world of Antillean thought around his anchorage in St. Martin."—Richard Drayton, King's College London… (more)