{"product_id":"9781845232399","title":"Sounding Ground","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature\u003cp\u003eVladimir Lucien is a young poet with so many gifts; his poetry is intelligent, musical, gritty in observation, graceful in method. His poems contain stories of ancestors, immediate family, the history embedded in his language choices as a St Lucian writer, and heroes such as Walter Rodney, C. L. R. James, Kamau Brathwaite, and a local steelbandsman. Although never overtly political, there’s an oblique and often witty politics embedded in the poems, as where observing the rise of a grandfather out of rural poverty into the style of colonial respectability, he writes of the man “who eat his farine and fish \/ and avocado in a civilize fight between \/ knife and fork and etiquette on his plate.” This is a collection that is alive with its conscious tensions both in subject matter and form. There’s a tension between the vision of ancestors, family, and of the poet himself as being engaged in the business of acting in the world and building on the past, and a sharp awareness of the inescapability of age’s frailty, the decay of memory and of death.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peepal Tree Press Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047560986864,"sku":"9781845232399","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781845232399_p0.jpg?v=1763744086","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781845232399","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}