Night Vision Saad Sarhane

Night Vision Saad SarhaneWith his dexterity as a writer, Hippolyte speaks through and beyond tradition. He writes in sonnet, triolet, villanelle and echo poem; in idiomatic dramatic monologues that capture the rhythms of Caribbean speech; in blues and rap poems; in free verse that draws upon the long breath incantatory lines of Ginsberg and contracts in miniaturist forms as concise as graffiti. While urbanisation expands and fragments his home of St. Lucia, Hippolyte draws

He currently holds the position of Distinguished Poet In Residence and Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina

by nature and context

like a stone thrown into a pool

was made into a film in Syria

and gained her PhD with a study on equality in the Middle Ages

Nigel Thompson

– Roscoe Mitchell

‘Rosenegg’s Night’

Harischandra Khemraj worked as a teacher in Guyana

the leaders of the 1816 slave revolt

from modern European poets

mark a homecoming in proper style