Five Poets from Trinidad and Tobago &#; with an introduction by Andre Bagoo
Five poets from Trinidad and Tobago
THE WORLD meets in Trinidad and Tobago. Here is a Caribbean country open to the possibilities of permeable boundaries, enriched by cultural diversity and charged with the energy needed to drive a special art.
Today, as the former British colony marks its 50th anniversary as an independent nation, we take a look at the work of five contemporary Trinidad-born poets in a series of posts which you will see below.
Most of these poets live in Trinidad, others divide their time between Trinidad and homes in the United Kingdom or the United States. All share a remarkable vantage point; all have been influenced by a rich Caribbean literary tradition which predates independence. Here are travellers: between time, space, dimensions, selves, journeying to and from Shakespeare’s undiscovered country. They create richly-coloured gems, spa
Fayad Jamis Collection
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The collection consists of materials related chiefly to Fayad Jamis' career as a poet and book artist. It includes unpublished manuscripts, books, handwritten and decorated booklets, as well as photographs that cover the period between and There is a heavily annotated copy of Jamis' collected poems, La Pedrada, which was published in Havana in All of the materials are in Spanish.
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There is no restriction on access to the Fayad Jamis Collection for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes.
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Fayad Jamis, Mexican-born Cuban poet, journalist, diplomat, painter, and book artist, was born in Zacatecas, the son of a Cuban father of Lebanese heritage and a Mexican mother, in He moved with his family t
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the student movement. In that year, many literary magazines were published in Mexico with the purpose of generating a platform for the spectrum of work created by artists of the time. A few of many were: La Cultura en México, Diálogos, El Rehilete, and among them, El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn, edited by Mexican poet, Sergio Mondragón and north American poet, Margaret Randall. The journal had an abrupt ending due to the repression suffered by the editors who protested against the violent actions in Tlatelolco.
El Corno, with its posture of resistance against social injustice, was published in a critical moment of the history of the American continent. Towards the end of the s, North American, Mexican and South American Poets were migrating out of their countries due to the political persecution that had been initiated by communist paranoia in the years following the Second World War, which saw the beginning of a new global tension: The Cold War. The United States especially endured the effects of the “red scare” in the form of McCarthyism (). Shortly after, the United States took on yet another external conflict, the
Fayad Jamis
By this freedom of song in the rain
will have to give everything
For this freedom to be closely tied
Fish-filled sunset
Oh Mason oh beggar
All columns are going to die
Cats pigeons numb
Morning light from the skylight
cut objects in two
Cats corretearán again
Your eyes are two Obsidian
It tornasolan morning
Your mouth is Strawberry and watermelon
And it is the birth of day
Sometimes, in the silence of the Hall, something jumps,
someone breaks some old name.
Crazy fly crosses buzzing, burning
I opened the iron gate,
I felt as it squeaked, bumped into a trunk
and I looked a lit window, but the early morning
What is for you the poetry in addition to?
a stone drilled by the Sun and the rain,
In addition to a child who dies of cold
The optimistic sat at the table, He looked to her around
and some of what little they found availed. They told him
that was too much nothing (in reality there were pocomucho)
If you can't sleep, get up and browse.
If you do not know death follows learning to love.
Dawn does not close your world: outside there are stars,
Terre n′aime pas le sang or les ordures.
Agrippa d′aubigne
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