Web of October

This original and meditative text combines an intensive critical reading of ''You Are Involved'', a celebrated poem by the Guyanese poet Martin Carter, and a series of ''poems of October'' written within the spaces of the essay.

The essay''s functions are multiple: to draw attention to Carter''s poetic art, to rescue his work from too narrowly political readings and to explore the relationships between language, art, politics and philosophy. Roopnaraine writes with a depth and lucity that a...