Caribbean & Latin American

Jean 'Binta' Breeze was a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances were so powerful she has been called a 'one-woman festival'. The Fifth Figure is a book-length sequence mixing poetry and prose which chronicles the lives of five...

Songs of Jamaica (1912) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published before the poet left Jamaica for the United States, Songs of Jamaica is a pioneering collection of verse written in Jamaican Patois, the first of its kind. As a committed leftist,...

This second collection of poems confirms why Tanya Shirley is so much in demand for readings. The stories she tells have their finger on the pulse of contemporary Jamaica in all its exuberance and brokenness. She tells these stories with a winning...

Originally published in 1939, Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the Negritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178744Author Alastair ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems brings together, across the span of thirty-plus years, the rebellious, innovative work of the Jamaican-born Canadian writer Pamela Mordecai. From her acclaimed first collection Journey Poem published in 1989,...

Dorothea Smartt connects past and present, presence and absence in this rich new collection of poems. At its heart is a sequence of poems set in Lancaster that excavate the missing history of Samboo, an African slave brought from the Caribbean by a...

"A feverish story of young adulthood, exploring how fandom and obsession shape how we relate to the world . . . Dreaming of You navigates the complexities of Latinx identity, self-loathing, love, and the loneliness of drifting into adulthood." -Miguel...

Winner of the Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Prize, 2020 Award-winning Indo-Caribbean poet Rajiv Mohabir (born 1981) brings his own poetic swagger and family history to a groundbreaking translation of Lalbihari Sharma's...

Neruda's Spanish text is presented with in face translations in this comprehensive collection of his works.Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971Book InformationISBN 9780395544181Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Houghton...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593987Author Pablo NerudaFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060935405Author Distinguished Writer Mark DotyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615810089Author David MasseFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Editorial DerivadaPublisher Editorial DerivadaWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Omeros, a transatlantic Homeric epic poem, is widely considered the masterwork of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott and one of the most important pieces of postcolonial Caribbean literature. Yet it is also Walcott's most challenging work. In Omeros, Walcott...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845234737Author Loretta Collins KlobahFormat PaperbackImprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591624Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

In DS (2)-Dreamstories 2-Kamau Brathwaite continues his ongoing collection of prose poems, comprised of the broken images, flow, and half-told stories of dreams. The poetic stories in DS (2) use Brathwaite's trademark sycorax video style, offering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525378Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993737084Author Scarlett EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Edwards PublishingPublisher Edwards PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

The Caribbean has produced one of the most vigorous and exciting bodies of poetry of the last one hundred year. The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse is the only contemporary anthology to present the best of the English-language poetry of the region...

Peelin Orange is the definitive Collected Poems by one of Jamaica's leading voices, the current Poet Laureate, Mervyn Morris. These poems explore the everyday, the erotic, love and the melancholy and comedy of being. Often drawing upon Creole dialect,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537579Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789769642003Author Jacinth HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Brown Bird PublishingPublisher Brown Bird PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

Vahni Capildeo is the author of the poetry collections "Dark & Unaccustomed Words," "No Traveller Returns," "Person Animal Figure," and "Undraining"" Sea," and her work has appeared in the anthologies "Identity Parade," "In the Telling," and "The Oxford...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372785Author Norma ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

There is renewed interest in Phyllis Shand Allfrey, author (the Orchid House) and politician from Dominica. Allfrey died in 1986 - her poetry neglected and little known. Her work is now being acclaimed and her place in Caribbean literary cannon assured...

This poetry collection includes prose. Some pieces tell stories. Others half-express, half-explain, a certain pressure of situation. Poems in a book do not sound, or signify, as do poems extracted, or composed, to stand alone. The sequence matters, as...

Strange Fruit is the latest poetry collection by experimental Caribbean poet and theorist Kamau Brathwaite.Book InformationISBN 9781845233082Author Kamau BrathwaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press...

"There was no one in this country as ferocious, as brilliant, or as necessary as Pedro Pietri. In these days of growing inequality it is to his rebel vision I turn to for hope and for strength. A towering poet, absolutely peerless, explosively talented,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558852044Author Jose MartFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint Arte Publico Press,U.S.Publisher Arte Publico Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Pablo de Rokha was one of the great trio of Chilean modernist poets, along with Vicente Huidobro (2 years his senior) and Pablo Neruda (10 years his junior). All three were communists, all three were great poets, and all three cordially detested each...

While on assignment for the Virginia Quarterly Review to report on the impact of HIV/AIDS on Jamaica, Kwame Dawes could not prevent himself from writing poems in response to the stories he heard. In a way journalism is not designed to do, these poems...

Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, Girondo is one of the pioneers of Latin American literature. This selection offers a glimpse of a precise and playful writer who insisted that a poem "should be constructed like a watch and sold like a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532703Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apocalypse and Other Poems by Nicaragua's revolutionist poet-priest, Ernesto Cardenal, is the author's second book, the first of poetry, to be published by New Directions. The editors of this volume, Robert Pring-Mill and Donald D. Walsh, have chosen a...

Legna Rodriguez Iglesias has quickly become one of the most celebrated Cuban poets writing today. Her intense - often confrontational - poetry refuses to conform, subverting expectations and challenging social mores. Particularly arresting is her...

Winner 2004 International Octavio Paz Prize for Poetry. Featuring "La Tierra Giro para Acercarnos" (The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer) from the Oscar-nominated film 21 Grams, this new translation of selected poems and prose by Venezuela's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374506483Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982200978Author Shelly Sykes-ColeyFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Edward Baugh has one of the most recognisable voices in Caribbean poetry: his dry wit, poise and elegance, his constant capacity to surprise with the range of his concerns. Black Sand comprises poems selected from Baugh's two previous collections, A Tale...