Trench Town Rock

by Edward Kamau Brathwaite · 1994

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Poetry. African American Studies. Caribbean Studies. "Typeset in Brathwaite's trademark Sycorax video-print style, TRENCH TOWN ROCK is a harrowing account of violence in modern-day Jamaica. TRENCH TOWN ROCK, Kamau Brathwaite's long documentarian song, affords insistent 'nansic spin a splay of clips, massed facts and faces, rare synaesthetic call and cry rolled into brash typographic distraint." Nathaniel Mackey"

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