Other Exiles by Edward Brathwaite

Just recently I had read the book called Other Exiles by Edward Brathwaite. He is known for his studies of Black cultural life both in Africa and throughout the African diasporas of the world. If you are looking for a book with a lot of poetry, then this is the perfect book for you. This book consists of a bunch of poems about someone’s journey that takes place in his home island Barbados and then to Europe and back. These poems are not lengthy sentences, but rather short and clipped. It is very interesting to read about poems that are of someone’s personal experience rather than made up. These poems are about specific events that had happened in a person’s life in a time span of a year. These poems start off at about new years and then after go talk about specific events that had happened in that year. Then the poems end back at new years with the end of the year. Having it this way I think is much easier to comprehend what is going on and just a better way to organize it. This book and others like it should have definitely been on the syllabus because of the intriguing and thoughtful poems that he had written. They are just really interesting to read and when you read them, you can actually visualize what he is saying. One of the poems in this book that I thought was great to read was the one called At the Death of a Young Poet’s Wife. This poem had a lot of emotion in it and was very vivid. I could just feel by reading it how this guy was feeling. This is how all of these poems are. Just like I said, when you read them, you can feel how he is feeling and picture what is going on in them. Reading the poems was not very difficult. They are obviously written in a poetic way, but make it easy for the readers to understand what is going on in them. Another thing that I like is that these poems are put into chronological order. You should be convinced by now that the book Other Exiles is something worth reading. It is full of poetry that you can just get lost in because of the exemplary detail and description that it has. You can read it at anytime and anywhere that you want and when you are done with it, you would be quick to recommend it to someone else.