Most of the poems in this new collection follow the arc of the Caribbean archipelago from Trinidad to Jamaica. The reader is taken on an odyssey, beginning with "e;The Schooner Flight,"e; in which a poor mulatto sailor abandons his life in Trinidad, sailing northward to meet his fate, and ending with "e;The Star-Apple Kingdom,"e; a long poem whose axis is the crucial attempt to establish a new social order in Jamaica without sacrificing democracy. Other poems speak through various personae: "e;Koenig of the River"e; marks the end of a saga of nineteenth-century exploration and conquest through the Conradian image of a missionary-soldier whose comrades have been lost at sea; "e;The Saddhu of Couva"e; describes the lament of an Indian priest for a fading spirituality; "e;Egypt, Tobago"e; places Mark Antony on a beach in the glare of afternoon. Two poems...
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