Black Yeats: Eric Roach And the Politics of Caribbean Poetry

With an eye to his particular importance as a documentarian of Anglophone Caribbean history and culture, this critical analysis of Eric Roach's published poetry interprets his work in the context of a broader study of the intersections of his poetic life, the political events he experienced, and the seminal debates about art and culture—both "high" and "low"—in which he took part.