Like no poetry you've ever known before, Fred D'Aguiar's novel-in-verse sweeps you up in the scintillating story of a young female slave who falls in love with the son of the plantation owner and runs away with him in search of a new life. En route they are rescued by an old man who has organised a secret underground railroad to help slaves escape, but they become separated from each other: faith, the woman, is sold back into slavery and Christy, her lover, punished with forced labour. The novel is narrated by their son who is stuck in time until their story is told. Using the intricate rhyme-scheme of Byron's wonderfully picaresque Don Juan, D'Aguiar wittily plays with language to create poetry that is dazzling in its inventiveness whilst being utterly readable. Despite the seriousness of its subject matter, "Bloodlines" is full of humour, satire, experiment and, above all, life. Its characters are, like the language, brim-full of energy and very sympathetic as they struggle against vicissitude. Read this book fast like a novel, savour every word like a poem, do both, the choice is yours.

Bloodlines

Fred D'Aguiar

Vintage

Bethany Bettany

A Caribbean country on the verge of collapse. A small town called Boundary. A rambling house inhabited by three generations of the Abrahams family. And a little girl who is trying to make sense of it all.Bethany Bettany is five years old when her father dies and her mother leaves her to fend for herself in the Abrahams household. The place simmers with resentment: her uncles and aunts think her mother killed her father; her grandmother refuses to leave her room. Bethany is the scapegoat for it all. In Bethany, D'Aguiar has created both a loveable character and a symbol for the search of a nation to make itself whole. If Boundary is Guyana, then Bethany Bettany - a girl torn between two names - is the spirit of its people poised for flight.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Dear Future

Contemporary

RANDOM HOUSE UK

A literary venture into the economic shadow that slavery cast, Feeding the Ghosts, based on a true story, lays bare the raw business of the slave trade. The Zong, a slave ship packed with captive African "stock," is headed to the New World. When illness threatens to disable all on board and cut potential profits, the ship's captain orders his crew to throw the sick into the ocean. After being hurled overboard, Mintah, a young female slave taken from a Danish mission, is able to climb back onto the ship. From her hiding place, she rouses the remaining slaves to rebel and stirs unease among the crew with a voice and conscience they seem unable to silence. Mintah's courage and others' reactions to it unfold in a suspenseful story of the struggle to live even when threatened by oblivion.

Feeding the Ghosts

London: Chatto & Windus

Vintage, UK

Airy Hall

Poetry Book Society Ltd

Converge™ is a new publication that gives voice and vision to Miami Art Museum’s New Work Series from 1996 to 2002. Each of the books in the 3 book series is handsomely illustrated with more than 50 color and black and white reproductions of the artist’s projects. Volume 1 includes: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Genevieve Cadieux, Carlos Capelan, Janet Cardiff, Tom Downs, Leonardo Drew, Vernon Fisher, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marcos Lora Read, Ana Maria Mazzei, Doris Salcedo, Lorna Simpson, and Ruben Torres-Llorca. Volume 2 will be published in fall 2001 and Volume 3 in 2002.

Converge, vol. 1

Arts & Photography

Amy Rosenblum Martín

Sue Graze

Tami Katz-Freiman

Thelma Golden

Charles Merewether

Tananarive Due

Adrian Castro

Carol Damian

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Miami Art Museum

A literary venture into the economic shadow that slavery cast, Feeding the Ghosts, based on a true story, lays bare the raw business of the slave trade. The Zong, a slave ship packed with captive African "stock," is headed to the New World. When illness threatens to disable all on board and cut potential profits, the ship's captain orders his crew to throw the sick into the ocean. After being hurled overboard, Mintah, a young female slave taken from a Danish mission, is able to climb back onto the ship. From her hiding place, she rouses the remaining slaves to rebel and stirs unease among the crew with a voice and conscience they seem unable to silence. Mintah's courage and others' reactions to it unfold in a suspenseful story of the struggle to live even when threatened by oblivion.

Literary

Waveland Press. Inc.

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