Hawk is last body—soul Ronnie Scott is in London 1968—counting - Poem

Literary Review, Wntr, 2003 by Kamau Brathwaite

Kamau Brathwaite was born in Bridgetown, Barbados. He currently divides his time between Barbados and New York University, where he has been a professor of comparative literature since 1991. He has published sixteen books of poetry, beginning with Rights of Passage. Other collections include Other Exiles, Black Blues, Soweto, Third World Poems, Trenchtown Rock, Roots, and more recently, Masks and Ancestors.

He has written two plays and published several volumes of history, literary criticism, and bibliographical works on Caribbean heritage. Brathwaite was awarded the Casa de las Americas Prize for Literary Criticism and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.