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Author: Ramcharitar, Raymond
ISBN: 9781845232122

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Author

Raymond Ramcharitar

Publisher

Peepal Tree Press

Year

2013

Language

English

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Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 13.7 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.09 kg.

ISBN

1845232127

ISBN13

9781845232122

Synopsis "Here"

A poetic approach to revising and re-creating Caribbean mythology on an epic scale, this book-length autobiographical poem in five parts addresses the large themes of the Caribbean experience: history, migration, myth, and domestic love. The different movements vary in style and tone--from blank verse, to terza rima, to heroic couplets--but are unified by the voice of the single narrator, which changes over time. Prefaced by a passage from the Ramayana, the poem begins on the plains of Caroni, where the narrator traces his beginnings, and moves to an overnight bus journey through Europe, a sojourn in Toronto, and an account of a broken marriage, addressed to the narrator's daughter. The series of poems ends with "The Last Avatar," a miniepic which recasts the Caribbean as a Hindu eschatological myth and places its heroes as the holy trinity of Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu in Caribbean terms.

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