Poetry of K.O. Harrop: Reflections on life, history, injustice, resistance, civil rights, and Guyana

The Poetry of K.O. Harrop shows the beauty and significance of poetry in telling life stories. The poems teach new lessons and create new emotions and cause you to re-examine your comfort or discomfort with the subject. For example: • In the chapter Lessons from History, revisit the past and rethink how its lessons should be used to shape the future. Awake to the cry for awareness of young lives disproportionately lost in the penal system in the poem ‘Elegy above a City Jailyard.’ • Re-exam...