The second collection by one of the most significant literary figures in the Caribbean (The
Globe and Mail).Assured but chance-inflected ever rooted in the local but always world-aware
Console reconsiders languages geographies and memories as luminous soundscapes. With lyric
dexterity Colin Channer jolts old notions of New England cross-fading from the Berkshires to
Anguilla from Connecticut to Senegal. A dissolve to the poet's childhood in Jamaica occurs
after glimpsing an old record player in Providence leading to the title poem's meditations on
reggae religion marriage justice and transgressions in the home. With allusive links to
photography music sea mammals mistranslation and the universal ritual of the walk Console
reorganizes our sense of time collapses and rebreaks the remembered and certain renames the
familiar reaches for settled etymologies and turns words inside out.Includes 8
black-and-white photographs
