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Wesleyann Press
& Flying Antelope Global Productions
present

The 2006 International Griffin Poetry Winner & Globally Renowned Poet

KAMAU BRATHWAITE

Poetry reading / Book signing
BORN TO SLOW HORSES

Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd.
(between 124th & 125th Streets)
Harlem, USA

Thursday, October 26, 2006

6 p.m.

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Awards
Dr. Kamau Brathwaite, dramatist, critic, historian, cultural theorist and
professor of comparative literature at NYU is the recipient of:

A Guggenheim Fellowship * A Fullbright Fellowship Award
The Casa de Las Americas Prize * The Busa Award
Neustadt International Prize

Reviews

Kamau Brathwaite has been heralded as “one of the most significant Caribbean-born writers of the 20th Century”
Publisher’s Weekly

“…Brathwaite’s approach are disorienting and dazzling. Brathwaite may be freer with poetic content than any poet working today. Born to Slow Horses contains everything from lyrical poetry and eulogy to epistemological writing and political commentary.

A tour de force in the volume is the long poem Kumina…Kumina rivals such elegiac poems as Alfred Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam or Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish in the intensity with which it uses poetry to examine the pain of grieving

If…we believe that poetry must move the reader on an intellectual and visceral level, so that the reader is inspired to return to it and re-read again and again, then Born to Slow Horses promises to stand the test of time…”
Montreal Gazette

“Kamau Brathwaite’s mysterious Namsetoura, coupled with his intelligently rebellious typography, spelling and “nation language” will charge off the pages of Born to Slow Horses, and embrace his signature writing style (“2 horizons”). Hang on! This promises to be one of the greatest poetic rides of a lifetime.”
Misani, Caribbean A & E Contributor, NY Amsterdam News