Console - Colin Channer Gebunden

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 a nd 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