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Equinox

by Kamau Brathwaite

History and culture in Brathwaite’s poetry

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History and culture in Brathwaite’s poetry

Completed before Kamau Brathwaite’s death in 2020, *Equinox* brings together poems ranging across the Middle Passage, Barbados’s natural world, Jamaican Kumina, Billie Holiday, Whitney Houston, the Mandelas, the Fukushima disaster, and Breughel’s *Landscape with the Fall of Icarus*. The collection’s subjects connect Caribbean imagery with histories and cultural references from beyond the region. Brathwaite’s Barbadian vernacular and Sycorax typeface are part of the book’s presentation, alongside images and photographs. Injustice, redemption, and hope recur across this wide-ranging collection.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Caribbean poetry and Barbadian culture.
  • Readers drawn to poetry that engages with history, cultural figures, and the natural world.

Themes

Caribbean history and cultureThe Middle PassageInjustice, redemption, and hopeNature and visual art

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Book overview

Equinox is an unforgettable and never-before-published masterwork completed by Kamau Brathwaite before his death in 2020. Written in his unique Sycorax typeface and replete with compelling images and photographs, Equinox contains poems written in Brathwaite's singular Barbadian vernacular and visionary style--poems about the Middle Passage, the natural world, Billie Holiday, Whitney Houston, the Kumina dance in Jamaica, Nelson and Winnie Mandela, the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, and Breughel's painting "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," among many tidalectic topics. The lyrical poems in Equinox weave together history and culture with the imagery of Brathwaite's native Barbados, weaving a lush tapestry of injustice, redemption, and hope.

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