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Kamau Brathwaite [Edward Brathwaite]


Photo credit: Beverly Brathwaite 



The editor of PennSound's Brathwaite page is Jacob Edmond of the 
University of Otago (New Zealand).








Segue Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York City - May 1, 2004



Complete Reading (43:23): MP3


    

  1. Introduction (3:18): MP3
    

  2. Negus (4:35): MP3
    

  3. The Skin, part one of The Making of the Drum (1:06): MP3
    

  4. The Two Curved Sticks of the Drummer, part three of The Making of the Drum (0:45): MP3
    

  5. Gourds and Rattles, part four of The Making of the Drum (0:48): MP3
    

  6. The Gong-Gong, part five of The Making of the Drum (0:33) MP3
    

  7. Atumpan (2:06): MP3
    

  8. Naming (1:31): MP3
    

  9. Shepherd (6:36): MP3
    

  10. The Twist (0:41): MP3
    

  11. Wings of a Dove (3:51): MP3
    

  12. Caliban (10:06): MP3
    


  13. Xângo at the Summer Solstice (3:23): MP3
    

  14. The Twist (1:04): MP3




On Cross-Cultural Poetics Radio Show, Hosted by Leonard Shwartz

1. show number 16, Feburary 2, 2004 (59:58): MP3 RealAudio

Brathwaite talks about his new work, Caribbean poetry, and the ancient art of making it new.


2. show number 94, 2005 (59:43): MP3

Brathwaite, on the phone from Kingston, Jamaica, returns to Cross-Cultural Poetics to read from his new book Born to Slow Horses and to discuss the situation of Cowpastor, a piece of land in Barbados on which a slave burial ground is in danger of being desecrated.



"Angel/Engine"

(4:48): MP3

This poem was recorded October 19, 1997, part of a lecture/reading at the 
XCP: 
Cross-Cultural Poetics Conference, University of Minnesota. 
Published in Ancestors (A Reinvention of Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/Self) 
(New Directions, 2001). The poem appears here courtesy of Ken Sherwood. Click
here for Sherwood's
commentary.


 Reading of "Islands," 1973


  1. Complete Reading, part one (43:05): MP3
    2. 

  2. Complete Reading, part two (22:44): MP3
    3. 

  3. Complete Reading, part three (45:59): MP3
    4. 

  4. Complete Reading, part four (45:56): MP3














These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only.
All rights to this recorded material belong to the author © 2008 Kamau Edward  
Brathwaite Used with permission of Kamau Edward Brathwaite. 
Distributed by PennSound.