The Arrivants

A major landmark of 20th-century Caribbean poetry. "Those who lament that the Age of Giants is over have evidently never read Kamau Brathwaite" (Eliot Weinberger)

Here, in a single volume, is Kamau Brathwaite's early groundbreaking trilogy The Arrivants-containing Rights of Passage (1967), Masks (1968), and Islands (1969)-a brilliant and visionary exploration of the predicament of the poet living in the New World. Through the tension of regional dialect, musical rhythms, historical flashback...