There is an Isle Somewhere is an anthology of Caribbean poetry which draws attention to Caribbean folkways and graphically displays the undeniable regional consciousness based on common historical experiences that link Dutch, anglophone, francophone and hispanophone islands in spite of their language differences.

An old woman remembers in 1983 and her memories retain their freshness, for in the collective memory of an immigrant community, even though events change, circumstances often do not.  Carlos Russell’s poem An Old Woman Remembers is a narrative monologue that speaks with multiple Antillean voices raising questions about life, politics, education, culture, self-concept, social equity, religion, family, stereotypes, language, and its relation to identity and power.  His poetic vision speaks of the dreams, frustrations and challenges that characterize the Caribbean immigrants’ experience in Central America and the United States.

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This book by J.A. George Irish is a response to some of the searching questions asked by students about Revolutionary Cuban Literature and the role of Nicolás Guillén as a racially mixed person in that revolutionary situation, and partly in recognition of a wider need for critical commentary by West Indians on Caribbean literature in Spanish.  Growth of a Revolutionary Consciousness attempts to deal with some of the major areas of the poet’s work, and to make occasional cross-references to the works of other Caribbean poets like Aimé Césaire, E. Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott.  It is written with the student of African-American literature in mind and therefore assumes a basic familiarity with the major writers in English, French and Spanish in the Caribbean.

This edition of short stories by E.B. Baisden introduces to the reader a  number of characters who symbolically stand for the larger Caribbean experience in the region itself, as well as its diaspora.  There is, for example, the murderous and iconoclastic Christopher Columbus, who tries to explain away his guilt to a Caribbean he enslaved by telling him The Legend of Jome; there is Miss Princess, with her many lovers, who shakes her skirt at the world and keeps a husband working seven days a week twenty four hours a day; there is Dax, a Brooklyn poet who finds himself inexorably drawn into a revealing menage with two lesbian lovers.

Neg Maron: Freedom Fighter by Michael Aubertin is a captivating piece of Caribbean literature set on the enchanting island of St. Lucia.  It explores the physical and psychological struggle for emancipation.  It also analyzes the plantation itself.  This work, through some powerful writing, looks at freedom through revolt.  With a fluid style, the author makes some puissant remarks about blacks’ psychological connections to the plantation.  By the final page, this work transcends race into the spiritual realm.  This new perspective is refreshing, enjoyable and asks the reader to accept the possibility of an occurrence, which seems, at first, surreal until you still the mind.

In the context of Caribbean intellectual and artistic frameworks, the work of J. Edsel Edmunds takes on particular significance for its multidisciplinary scope and flavor.  In a region where writers, artists, musicians, academics and professionals alike tend to fit snugly into defined spaces within the conventional disciplines inherited from classical and colonial intellectual traditions, Edmunds dares to be different.