Burn
Published on 27. February 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
70 pages
978-1-84861-415-4 (ISBN)
Description
"Burn is a kaleidoscopic, surreal and stunning collection. Bagoo forges carnivalesque, enigmatic, experimental, vivid, wild and wonder-inspiring poems full of verve and utterly fresh language that are, by turns, eerie, elegiac, fleshy, pensive, mournful, rhapsodic and absolutely scorching...Poems traverse geographical locations, from his island home of Trinidad, to other Caribbean islands and as far distant as Iceland. There, personal and societal angst, passions and pleasures are held up to a 'sea of mirrors,' into which we gaze. Bagoo explores daily life, love, art, history, literature, myth, popular culture, ritual and the molten ground of memory, bringing together and animating douens, lionfish, Auden, Mozart, Caravaggio and Tchaikovsky, among other figures. Bring the fire, burn." -Loretta Collins-Klobah
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
102 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-415-4 (9781848614154)
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Person
Andre Bagoo was born in Trinidad. In 2005 he was shortlisted for a Derek Walcott Writing Prize. His poetry and book reviews have appeared in Boston Review, Caribbean Review of Books and The Caribbean Writer. He works as a journalist for Trinidad's Newsday. Trick Vessels, from Shearsman, was his first collection; Burn (2014) is his second.