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Lessons from a Revolutionary Caribbean WomanRevolutionary mother and lover, feminist and social activist, Joan French, now harvests her under-life in a fascinating poetic memoir, Remembering the Rainbow. These poems present a rainbow of past experiences covering her political activism, love and relationships, motherhood, depression, the comfort of the familiar, and discomforting features of the return home to residence in Jamaica in 2007, after residing elsewhere for over 15 years. Poetry lovers will relish the scope and breadth of these poems, some of which are intensely personal, intended to show that as women activists, we lived and loved, had our lows and highs, and still managed to find hard-won moments for creativity and peace. This creative biography and storytelling through poetry will inspire you to tell your own story and perhaps spark a revolution. Get it now!About the Author Joan French has promoted feminist action in the Caribbean since the late 1960s and is a founding member of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action, which led the struggle for the recognition of Caribbean feminism in the 1980s. She was Chief of Gender for UNICEF from 1998 to 2003, where she led the thrust for inclusion of gender analysis and action in every area of UNICEF programming. Joan has worked as a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages at the UWI, and at the Institute of Gender and Development Studies (IGDS). She became the first Coordinator of the Caribbean Policy Development Centre, charged with engaging with structures such as CARICOM in order to advance people-centred policies on behalf of regional civil society organisations.

Winner of the American Book Award in 2024, WE STILL BE: Poems and Performances is the long-awaited full-length debut of poems by the nationally-celebrated, award-winning spoken word artist, playwright, and educator Paul S. Flores. WE STILL BE: Poems and Performances is a collection that masterfully weaves together political and personal testimonies. Flores speaks to issues of gentrification, mixed Latino identity, masculinity, machismo, incarceration, systemic racism, racial unity, fatherhood, and more. "Paul S. Flores unlocks the hot key, the people's voice, and the Spanglish ritmoRhythm on how to write our story. He swags us into the soul and soulfulness of our life-chapters and our plight in the USA. It is a personal mambo, a face-to-face truth riffin' us into a "Spanglish mandala of hope," at last. We never again will ask ourselves "Who am I?" "Who are we?" Flores is not afraid to speak of his wounds of familia-yes, he is intimate, he is loving. He escorts us through the Bay Area, land of poets, artists, musicians, and muralists-he is part of that, he is all that-and we will be as we enter this world. Don't forget: Huey Newton, Lolita Lebrón, and José Feliciano in this salsa history bowl that will light you up all the way to feverish happiness. Flores is a master weaver, with a blazing kaleidoscopic lamp that reveals and embodies our lives. No book like this one in the last 50 years."--Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, Emeritus, winner of the Ruth Lily Prize, 2022, and Robert Frost Lifetime Achievement Medal, 2023"Poetry evangelist" Paul S. Flores testifies to the importance of language, representation and equity, the hypocrisy of sham systems, and his personal journey to redefine masculinity with a responsibility to the younger generations. Flores stakes his claim in Bay Area poetics writing with true intimacy, vulnerability, and radical love for his community. WE STILL BE is part memoir, part call to action, and part cultural celebration. It is a declaration of hope that we will all win, that men can be trusted, and that San Francisco's poetic heartbeat is still something worth believing in. --Amalia Ortiz, HBO Def Poet and American Book Award Winner. Author of Rant. Chant. Chisme. and The Canción Cannibal Cabaret & Other Songs

This book, Finding Common Ground: Selected Newspaper Columns of Ian Boxill, 1993-2000, literally represents the best articles written by Ian Boxill over a period of seven years (March 1993 to August 2000) on the opinion page of the Daily Gleaner in Jamaica. The book seeks - more so than the individual articles themselves, which were written with the general public in mind - to help graduates across the Caribbean region fulfil that obligation ... to become habitual readers (and writers). The hope is that they will not only read on matters relating to their own training and work, but also on issues of interest and concern to society in general and to the world today. In particular, the book also targets pre-university and first-year university students - especially those enrolled in degrees that involve basic or advanced expository or argumentative writing. In addition, it lends itself to 6th form students, those in community colleges, teacher- training colleges and other tertiary level institutions, who are learning to formulate and express a personal but informed opinion, in speech or writing, on topical events.- From the Editor's Preface

Leisly Ann Roman's Living in Phases, a bilingual debut poetry collection, highlights, or rather normalizes, the ups and the downs, the phases, we all go through in this lifetime. Pain and joy. Love and loss. Grief and strength. Doubt and pride. We live in polarities, we exist in countless phases. Embedded with themes ranging from mental health and cultural expectations, to healing and personal growth, and through the lens of the ever-changing phases of the moon, Roman invites you on a poetic exploration as she reflects upon her own past and current phases, and all that has been learned, or unlearned, as a result.

13 poemas de amor es un breve poemario que reúne una serie de composiciones líricas en torno al tema amoroso. Su versificación, más próxima a la poesía tradicional de antaño que al versolibrismo actual, lo emparenta con cierta tradición de la poesía española, con Rubén Darío como epítome.>Samuel Pérez ToranzoNacido en La Habana, Cuba, se graduó de bachiller en la Global University, Misouri. Es comunicador cristiano (2014) y licenciado en Historia de la Universidad de La Habana (2014).>Esther Soto ToranzoNacida en La Habana, Cuba, es una artista visual graduada de la Academia de Bellas Artes de San Alejandro en el año 2008. En 2010, emigró a México donde vivió y desarrolló la mayor parte de su obra plástica. También realizó allí algunas exposiciones personales y participó en otras exposiciones colectivas. En 2020 decide probar suerte en el Medio Oriente y se muda a los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, donde actualmente reside y participa en importantes exposiciones colectivas y eventos de arte.

La bella violinista y cuatro cuentos más es una colección de 5 cuentos para niños, todos originalmente publicados en español en el periódico La Prensa de San Antonio, Texas en la década de los 1920. La bella violinista es una niña adolescente que toca magistralmente el violín y, en vez de hacerse rica con su talento, lo usa para tocar en las calles de su pueblo. Los fondos que recauda en la calle los reparte personalmente a la gente más necesitada. Una niña mimada es el siguiente cuento y trata sobre una niña que nace enferma, pero que recupera la salud mientras va creciendo. Cuando está enferma sus padres la miman tanto que a través del tiempo la niña, y luego de adolescente, se acostumbra a ser la que manda en su casa, sin tener consideración por todos los que la rodean. Los otros tres cuentos son Un robo descubierto con delicadeza por el Rey Alfonso de Aragón, Leo y Nica, y El Lobo bueno. The Beautiful Girl with the Violin and Four Other Stories is a collection of five stories for children, all originally published in the Spanish language newspaper La Prensa in San Antonio, Texas in the 1920's. The beautiful girl with the violin tells the story of an adolescent girl who is a master violin player and, instead of using her talent to become rich, she plays in the street corners of her town. The money that she collects she personally distributes among the needy. A Spoiled Girl is the next story, and it's about a girl who is sick when she's born, but she regains her health as she grows up. When she is sick, her parents spoil her to the point that, as an adolescent, she is the one who tells everyone what to do around the house, without having any consideration for anyone in her surroundings. The other three stories are A Robbery delicately Resolved by King Alfonso of Aragón, Leo and Nica, and The Good Wolf.

Rhymes and Riddims of Jamaica is a collection of dub poems intended to educate, entertain and inspire readers. The book offers a snapshot of the reality of Jamaican life and celebrates the struggles and triumphs that we may face daily. Highlighting various social issues, themes and imagery in the book encourages readers to reflect on real-life issues but brings laughter, fun and joy to lovers of the creative arts.

This book examines gendered power dynamics, long-held patriarchal values, and other harmful attitudes toward women in The Bahamas and Caribbean through the lens of media and law.

"Enzo Silon Surin's poetry brings an honest lyricism to the body of work by people of African descent that began in the eighteenth century in a country that struggles to realize its ideals. Inspired by such heroic voices as Martinique's Aimé Cé saire, Surin brings his Haitian roots to bear on the landscape of America in an epic sweep of incantatory rhythms evoking the enduring spirit of the African Diaspora. The immediacy of his poetry is grounded in his sense of history, as twenty-first century black immigrants come to the U.S. to negotiate race and culture. His delicate unveiling of hurt and courage are the American story in miniature. He is the poet as warrior priest, his work the prophet's homily redefining what it means to become and be an American." -- AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER

Stereotypes of Caribbean "nature" as lush and its people as exotic Others abound. For those who call the islands home, the region evokes more somber images that reflect the history of colonization and the environmental devastation that ensues. Close ecocritical readings of literary texts illuminate aspects of an encompassing nature inclusive of all Others within the Caribbean ecosphere.This book thus uses ecocritical lenses to examine Caribbean texts and provides a useful context to understand how Other(ed) natures have been scripted by bringing to light environmental concerns not patent in heteropatriarchal interpretations. It establishes patterns of coexistence and interdependence between the spiritual and palpable material worlds that surround the characters who populate Caribbean literature. Culture, Nature, and the Other in Caribbean Literature: An Ecocritical Approach considers texts from colonial times to the present that reflect on the significance of the region's rich cultures against the brutal slavery system and its impact on the environment. Christopher Columbus's first letter helps establish the effects of colonization on indigenous peoples, the ensuing importation of African slaves, and the changes to the landscape. The Haitian revolution, a turning point in Caribbean history, remains central when studying the effects of continued violence on the ecosystem when juxtaposed to the spiritual world of Other(ed) natures. The expression of female agency and sexuality provides the framework for the study of adaptation and hybridization as crucial reflections on the ecological significance of the Caribbean's multiracial reality.The book considers the Caribbean's rich cultural matter as part of the ecosphere that resonates with the surrounding more-than-human world that should be saved from extinction. Novelists transform ecological issues into pressing matters that extend beyond the environment and include the syncretic cultures of the islands and its peoples. No other book offers this kind of close comparative re-readings of Caribbean texts-from Hispaniola to Haiti to Cuba, and from Martinique to Guadeloupe to Puerto Rico, to the Dominican Republic-through ecocritical lenses to recognize the significance of the survival of the literary matter of Other(ed) natures as readers (re)think their own roles within this inclusive ecosphere. Culture, Nature, and the Other in Caribbean Literature is a valuable resource for academic researchers, students, and general readers interested in ecocritical approaches to Caribbean literature as well as environmental and cultural studies.This book is in the Cambria Latin American Literatures and Cultures Series headed by Román de la Campa, the Edwin B. and Lenore R. Williams Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Caribbean has historically been constructed as a region mantled by the fantastic. Andrea Shaw Nevins analyses such imaginings of the Caribbean and interrogates the freighting of Caribbean-infused spaces with characteristics that register as fantastical.

"Dami, a nonbinary former demonio, must cancel every deal they have ever made in order to tether their soul to earth and remain human, but first they must help a boy named Silas find Captain Kidd's treasure and break a family curse"--

"Ju-Girl's favorite days are the ones spent with Granddad in his garage, fixing cars and hearing stories about his old blue pickup. Granddad used to drive the blue pickup all over the island, bringing happiness to many. And now it just sits in the driveway. One day, Ju-Girl asks Granddad if he'd ever fix it, and he's unsure at first. But the pair soon finds out just what it takes to restore the memory of the blue pickup and to create new stories along the way"--

TREASURES OF THE CARIBBEAN is a unique compilation of treasures from all ages and inhabitants of the Caribbean. The Taino - Lost Civilization of the Caribbean: This collection of historical artifacts and relics of the indigenous inhabitants is one of the finest in the world. It includes relics of stone, bone, ceramic, jade, gold, shell and wood. Guns of Columbus & the Columbus Collection: Columbus' personal matchlock gun and a breech loading swivel cannon from a Columbus shipwreck site. Period portraits of Columbus, Ferdinand, Isabella, 15th c. stone portrait bust of Isabella, etc. Treasures: Maps, relics, manuscripts, artifacts, crucifixes, religious medallions, crucifix of fray Bartholomew de Las Casas given him by Isabella. 16th c. copy of Las Casas' "La Destruction de los Indios" showing torture & killing the Indians. Spanish Swords Arms & Relics of the Spanish Colonial Era: Daggers, swords, pistols, muskets, artifacts, paintings and sculptures. Buccaneer & Pirate Treasure, Swords and Arms: Gold/silver coins, treasure chests, wooden peg-leg, wrought iron prosthetic arm hook (Captain Hook). Caribbean Ship Model Collection. Black History: Rare Voodoo mask paintings, slave trade shackles, whip. Sharks: Antique paintings of dramatic Caribbean shark attacks.

Writer, Jon Springer has just finished what he considers to be his first literary masterpiece. When the local pilot invites him to tag along on a flight to the Yucatan, he has to decide if writing about life takes priority over living it...

Lo que me enseñó la noche es un viaje íntimo por las memorias de una rica vida en el surreal Caribe, en el que surgen las voces de la infancia que se cruzan con el recuerdo de los seres amados. Llueve suave y de la nostalgia surge el Viendolejos, Mimi, Dolores la Lololo, Nengue. Miembros de un linaje maravilloso que en varios tiempos ocupan esa casa entre platanales, habitados por libélulas, pájaros, grillos y curucusíes, en la que el viento se cuela suavemente por las ventanas. Pero la lluvia en el trópico es impredecible, de súbito se hace tormenta y "cae tan fuerte, que erosiona las manos e inunda los ojos". Se han ido los momentos felices. "A dónde fueron los días", dónde quedó la voz de trueno del padre joven, los libros y los parques de la infancia, los parientes que se van por "la curva de los miedos", el arte destruido por fanáticos religiosos, la ciudad que arde tras el bombardeo, el amor que ha dejado un hueco en el pecho... "Enséñame, papá / enséñame a hacer un barquito de papel". La lluvia se detiene y "toca abrazar el silencio, asir el canto de los pájaros y afinar el tacto para sentir su pequeño latir en nuestro pensamiento". Es el momento de hacer y celebrar la música, de hacer y celebrar la poesía. Es el momento del amor. De ponerle toda la atención a la abuela que oportuna surge de la memoria, pone un viejo bolero en el tocadiscos de la casa y murmura algo acerca del amor. Del amor, pieza central de este libro cargado de magia y nostalgia de Aura Sibila Benjamín, extraordinaria poeta nacida en el trópico, muy cerca de ese mar Caribe que se abraza al istmo de Panamá.

The musical call of the Piragüero welcomes all to enjoy the delicious frozen treat of Puerto Rico - shaved ice with a variety of fruit juice flavorings. Includes appendix of terminology.12 illustrations.