Zea Mexican Diary

Edward Kamau Brathwaite is professor of comparative literature at New York University. Among his many books of poetry and scholarship are Ancestors, Black & Blues, Masks, Islands, Days and Nights, Middle Passages, Our Ancestral Heritage, and History of the Voice. He received the 1994 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

[Kamau Brathwaite Is] one of the finest living poets of the Western hemisphere. - London Times; ""In this indefinable text, a diary/memoir and then some, West Indian poet and scholar Kamau Brathwaite conjures his wife, Doris, and tells of her death from cancer. Brathwaite can give even the cliches of death and mourning their flat but real weight."" - Village Voice Literary Supplement