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The Power of Caribbean Poetry: Word and Sound
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 51, Number 1, January 2013
- pp. 51-59
- 10.1353/bkb.2013.0012
- Article
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If anything can be said to define West Indian poetry it is that sense of an engagement with the diverse and often hidden sources of Caribbean history and culture and the determination to refashion those materials into poetry which speaks of and into the present in voices that the peoples of the region would recognise as their own. (Brown 155)