Caribbean Word Power

  • M. Nourbese Philip
    She Tries her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks. Ragweed Press
  • Christian Habekost
    Verbal Riddim: the Politics and Aesthetics of African-Caribbean Dub Poetry. Rodopi
  • Pamela Mordecai
    de Man: a Performance Poem. Sister Vision Press
Reviewed by Brenda Carr
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This review “Caribbean Word Power” originally appeared in Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 136-137.

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