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Cantos to Blood & Honey

Cantos to Blood & Honey

Castro, Adrian

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $12.95

ISBN10: 1566890675
ISBN13: 9781566890670
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: Sep 1 1997
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
Articulating the rhythm and flavor of an Afro-Caribbean-US search for a cohesive identity.

A rhythmic debut poetry collection powered by the pulse of the Caribbean, Cantos to Blood & Honey presents a synthesis of Afro-Caribbean, Hispanic, and North American mythology, language, and aesthetics. Adrian Castro, an Afro-Latino performance poet, explores within this dance issues of migration, cultural community, memory, and history.

Articulating the search for a cohesive Afro-Caribbean-American identity, Castro honors myth on one hand and history on the other. He addresses the migratory experience from Africa to the Caribbean to North America and the eventual clash of cultures. Meanwhile, a section of prose poems deals with ancestors past and present.

Writing in the Afro-Caribbean tradition pioneered by Nicolas Guillén and Luis Pales Matos, Castro creates a circular motion of theme, tone, subject matter, style, and cultural history, giving rise to a new illuminating archetypal poetry.

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