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Two Poems

Christene Clarkson
Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 141–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-11-1-141
Published: 01 February 2007
...Christene Clarkson Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Two Poems Christene Clarkson Revival This afternoon, I sat by the beach and let the waves teach me persistence; teach me what it means to be there, to move and yet not change, to embrace the shore, and still keep it so free...
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Three Poems

Christian Campbell
Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 140–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-3-140
Published: 01 October 2006
...Christian Campbell Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Three Poems Christian Campbell Yellow Rooms In Grenada for the first time, my woman island, without her, at my writer-friend place in Morne Jaloux, verandah view out to bush bush bush then the Carenage, we were liming...
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Zong! Poems

M. NourbeSe Philip
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 80–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-80
Published: 01 June 2008
...M. NourbeSe Philip Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Zong! Poems M. NourbeSe Philip Prologue The story of the eighteenth-century slave ship Zong is one that continues to haunt the imaginations of artists and writers. Among those who have engaged with the horrific events...
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Four Poems for Retamar

Kamau Brathwaite
Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 138–142.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3726734
Published: 01 November 2016
...Kamau Brathwaite <we need this poem set to music for Retamar> <CP 28 jan 2016> <22 jan 2016 . 2:25am . rev 24 jan . 12:25am . w/interference from The Basilisk> © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 How you will push the body to its born no matter what the pain...
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Five Poems

Sassy Ross
Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 73–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7703293
Published: 01 July 2019
...Sassy Ross A grandmother’s lost leg. A mother’s scarred sacrum. A daughter transformed into stone. In these five poems, history dwells in the body, the past deep in the bone. Confronting themes of poverty, intimate partner violence, and childhood sexual trauma, the poems speak to the varying ways...
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“Le <span class="search-highlight">poème</span> tué” graffiti, artist unknown at the time, Brouard Street, Port-a...

“Le poème tué” graffiti, artist unknown at the time, Brouard Street, Port-a...

in The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince > Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 1 “Le poème tué” graffiti, artist unknown at the time, Brouard Street, Port-au-Prince, 2019. Photograph by Guillermina De Ferrari More
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“Le <span class="search-highlight">poème</span> tué” graffiti, by Ricardo Boucher, Jean Jacques Dessalines Boulev...

“Le poème tué” graffiti, by Ricardo Boucher, Jean Jacques Dessalines Boulev...

in The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince > Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 14 “Le poème tué” graffiti, by Ricardo Boucher, Jean Jacques Dessalines Boulevard, Port-au-Prince, 2020. Photograph by Adler Pierre More
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The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince

Guillermina De Ferrari
Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 63–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9583418
Published: 01 November 2021
...Figure 1 “Le poème tué” graffiti, artist unknown at the time, Brouard Street, Port-au-Prince, 2019. Photograph by Guillermina De Ferrari ...
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Ancestral Coda

Suzanne C. Persard
Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 80–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7703305
Published: 01 July 2019
...Suzanne C. Persard This series of poems operates somewhere between the Bronx, Half Way Tree (Kingston), and memory. Indian indentureship in Jamaica is epistemologically eclipsed; queer death is unmemorialized; an opening of sugar packets evokes the violence of empire. These poems reckon with loss...
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On Ecstatic-Aesthetic Universality—In Zong!

Daniel Benjamin
Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7374418
Published: 01 March 2019
...Daniel Benjamin This essay argues that M. NourbeSe Philip’s 2008 book-length poem Zong! offers aesthetic experience as an undetermined exposure toward communality. As readers, we are not merely consuming the poem, which emerges from Philip’s reading of a 1781 court decision regarding a slave...
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Kamau Brathwaite, a Memoir: The Road to and from New York City

Timothy J. Reiss
Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 111–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724121
Published: 01 March 2022
... and return to Barbados, up to his death in 2020. It especially follows Kamau from his low “time of salt” of the late 1980s in Jamaica through the stunning critical and poetic burgeoning from the 1990s on, with such works as Barabajan Poems ; the two-volume MR ; the prize-winning Born to Slow Horses...
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T'rough Accident: Utterance and Evolution in Songs of Jamaica

Alex Benson
Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3481498
Published: 01 March 2016
...Alex Benson Claude McKay's “Cudjoe Fresh from de Lecture” first saw print in his 1912 volume Songs of Jamaica . Its speaker, whose voice appears in a densely patterned representation of Jamaican Creole, meditates on biological variation and colonial history. Setting the poem against discourses...
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Absence and Disappearance: A Black Caribbean Women’s Poetics of the Body

Warren Harding
Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 1–15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724009
Published: 01 March 2022
... a recuperation of a poetics between Ríos and Philip enhance a study of the body? Through a close reading of two poems, it points to instances of absence and disappearance as generative signals that enable these women to transgress the silences that structure imaginative and lived experiences. In doing so...
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In Conversation with History: An Interview with M. NourbeSe Philip

Marta Fernández Campa
Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 85–100.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724079
Published: 01 March 2022
... the killing of George Floyd, and the profitability of amnesia in our capitalist societies. In this interview, readers can also access a recent poem, “When the looting starts . . . ,” which Philip dedicates to African American activist Tamika D. Mallory. MFC: How do you see your work...
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Everything Slackens in a Wreck

Andil Gosine
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901696
Published: 01 July 2022
... about the title of the exhibition, which is taken from a Khal Torabully poem, and explains the relevance of and his intrigue with the four artists whose works comprise the exhibition: Wendy Nanan (Trinidad and Tobago), Margaret Chen (Jamaica/Canada), Andrea Chung (Jamaica/United States), and Kelly...
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Notes on the Age of Dis: Reading Kingston through Agamben

Nadi Edwards
Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 1–15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-1-1
Published: 01 February 2008
...Nadi Edwards This paper examines the representation of contemporary figures of “bare life” in the context of postcolonial Jamaican modernity. The representation of Kingston as a dystopia is one such trope of bare life, as evident in Kamau Brathwaite's 1994 prose poem, Trench Town Rock...
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Two Returns to the Native Land: Lydia Cabrera Translates Aimé Césaire

Emily A. Maguire
Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 125–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2379045
Published: 01 November 2013
...Emily A. Maguire In 1943, Cuban writer Lydia Cabrera published a Spanish translation of Aimé Césaire's poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land with illustrations by Cuban artist Wifredo Lam. The translation introduced the concept of Négritude to a Cuban and Spanish-language readership...
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Césaire, Chamoiseau, and the Work of Legacy

Carrie Noland
Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 102–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3341705
Published: 01 November 2015
... into the same heritage? What is the proper time and place of a poet or a poem? What is the work of legacy? How might the effort to memorialize a poet detach us from the material conditions of his or her emergence? Césaire, Perse, Glissant: Les liaisons magnétiques reveals the intimacy...
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The Public Sphere and Jamaican Anticolonial Politics: Public Opinion, Focus , and the Place of the Literary

Raphael Dalleo
Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 56–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2010-005
Published: 01 July 2010
... the number of short stories published, rather than poems, because while poems were sometimes marginal and fit into corners surrounded by news, stories took up more space on the page and when included in an issue commanded a greater presence. Table 1 compares the number of stories, poems, and plays...
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“If freedom writes no happier alphabet”: Martin Carter and Poetic Silence

Gemma Robinson
Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 43–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-1-43
Published: 01 March 2004
.... Gordon Rohlehr, “Th e Creative Writer and West Indian Society,” Kaie: Th e Literary Vision of Carifesta ’72 11 (August 1973): 48–77 (52). 3. Ibid., 52. In the early 1950s Carter published Th e Kind Eagle: Poems of Prison (Georgetown: Martin Carter, 1952). Small Axe 15, March 2004: pp. 43–62...
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