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From the very first piece
in this collection, the title poem “In a Boston Night,”
Sasenarine Persaud signals a return to the passionate and
sensuous that informed much of his earlier work. Persaud, the
poet as craftsman, is ever present in this collection, using a
complex series of personas and “voices” moving back and forth in
time and place. Boston, the focal point of this collection, is
like a needle hole through which the poet deftly threads his
reflections about places, events, and histories: a conflict
between Anglo- and Franco-Canadians at a Brookline art
exhibition; Georgetown and Mumbai; Tampa and Toronto; the
“Boston Tea Party” as a symbol of resistance to American
English, subtly underlined by the description of a Walcott
reading in an overflowing university hall. This is a fine,
multilayered collection of poems by an important and
accomplished contemporary poet.
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| Sasenarine Persaud is the author of three books of fiction and six collections of poetry. His awards include: the Arthur Schomburg Award for his contribution to Caribbean Literature; the K.M. Hunter Foundation Award; two Canada Council awards; and fellowships from the University of Miami and Boston University. He was born in Guyana and has lived for several years in Canada. | |||||
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