Console : Poems

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

Author: Colin Channer

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Publication Date: Jul 16, 2024

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0374613958

ISBN-13: 9780374613952