Great Association Copy, Inspring the Journal Caliban
Islands.
London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Price: $400.00
About the item
113 pp. 8vo. Peach cloth. Edgeworn, in dust jacket with wear around all edges and loss to the head and foot of spine section.
Item #372792
Inscribed: "Venceremos / Edward Brathwaite / 1973" to Roberto Márquez, the co-founder of Caliban, the journal of postcolonial art and literature featuring voices primarily from Latin America and the Caribbean. Caliban was ostensibly named after the 1974 essay "Caliban" by Roberto Fernández Retamar, the Cuban poet, which Márquez helped translate into English. He was also clearly inspired by this book, which he'd been reading since at least the year previous: Part II, "Limbo," the third section is titled, "Caliban" and its title is circled and its pages heavily annotated by Márquez. It begins:
Ninety-five per cent of my people poor
ninety-five per cent of my people black
ninety-five per cent of my people dead
you have heard it all before O Leviticus O Jeremiah O Jean-Paul Sarte
A GREAT ASSOCIATION OF POSTCOLONIAL POETRY.
