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GUYANA: MARTIN CARTER– Carter’s Poetry of the “Negative Yes”

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READINGS FROM KAMAU BRAITHWAITE’S ESSAY
This year we celebrate the birth of Martin Carter with a look at his poems against the backdrop of contemporary Guyanese and Caribbean writing. In 1981 the late Kamau Brathwaite published an essay in Caliban assessing the metaphysical (elements and stages) in the poetry of Martin Carter. The essay was reprinted 20 years later in Stewart Brown’s collection of essays about Martin,             

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