Description: Deeply felt requiems from an internationally celebrated poet
Review Quotes:
"Elegguas sings with anger and righteousness, but the balm of tender creation emanates from its overtones."--Alexandria Yurkovsky, San Francisco Chronicale
"Through letters, verses, and songs, Brathwaite's collection develops an eternal connection between the human world and the divine."--Sadiqa Beg, Wasafiri
"There is a passion that is universal in these works, a sorrow and a soaring as in jazz, the music a song of protest and promise, pride and hurt. Though perhaps our accents and intonations would make an islander laugh, these poems should be read aloud too (the phrasing and dramatic gravitas almost demands it)."--Iconoclast
"Brathwaite shifts tones as seamlessly as he does dialects; I finished Elegguas filled with melancholy, joy, and an odd, and I hope not inappropriate, envy for the multiple tongues and moods he moves among with such dexterity and eloquence."--Jeff Gundy, Poetry Salzburg Review
"This collection is a wonderful experience, highly recommended for both experienced and new Brathwaite readers."--Elaine Savory, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas
"Elegguas sings with anger and righteousness, but the balm of tender creation emanates from its overtones."--Alexandria Yurkovsky, San Francisco Chronicale
"Brathwaite is a poet capable of great eloquence and elegancemusical precisionand inventiveness, as in the style of script he has fashioned that is both the reflection of and the antithesis of the spoken word."--Sima Rabinowitz, NewPages