After-Image

"In After-image, Dennis Scott distils the qualities that established him as a major Caribbean poet. There is his acute intelligence, seriousness worn lightly, and meticulous craft with sound and the appearance of the poem on the page. There is his sense of multiple inheritances and refusal to be conscripted into any sentimental stance. He goes 'among the fashionable drums / trying to keep true my own blood's subtle beat'. There is the warm humanity of his poems about love and the nourishment of his marriage." "Particularly arresting in After-image, poems drawn from manuscripts left by Scott after his untimely death in 1991, and edited by his friend Mervyn Morris, are those that focus on his coming death. These are poems vibrant with life, with curiosity about this new journey, poems of an inspiring courage."--BOOK JACKET.Scott, Dennis is the author of 'After-Image' with ISBN 9781845230241 and ISBN 1845230248.