My Strangled City

Gordon Rohlehr’s critical work is outstanding in the balance it achieves between its particularity and its breadth—from the detailed unpacking of a poem’s inner workings, to locating Caribbean writing in the sweep of political and cultural history—and the equal respect he pays to literary and to popular cultural forms. Indeed, along with Kamau Brathwaite, Sylvia Wynter and Kenneth Ramchand, no critic has done more to establish the subject of Caribbean writing and its distinctive aesthetics....