Book of The Dead

Poetry. Caribbean Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. African & African American Studies. "An important new work of world literature... an ambitious book."—Xu Xi "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