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Linton Kwesi Johnson

Autore di Mi Revalueshanary Fren

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Linton Kwesi Johnson is Britain's most influential black poet

Opere di Linton Kwesi Johnson

Opere correlate

The Spoken Word Revolution Redux (2007) — Collaboratore — 84 copie
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology (2007) — Collaboratore — 75 copie
IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (2000) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry (1998) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
Here to Stay, Here to Fight: A Race Today Anthology (2019) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
Out of Bounds: British, Black, and Asian Poets (2012) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Sun City — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Changing Britannia: Life Experience with Britain (1999) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1952-08-24
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
Jamaica (birth)
Luogo di nascita
Chapelton, Jamaica
Attività lavorative
poet (dub)
Premi e riconoscimenti
PEN Pinter prize (2020)

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A Carib-Brit contribution to the history of rap. This man writes some of the most moving poetry to be found in popular music. The quite achingly sad “Sonny’s Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem)” is alone worth the price of admission. Although not sung but spoken word set against a superb band, this must be one of the most important reggae records of all time. I gave my original copy just recently to Mos Def, in whom I see connections to Johnson, thinking I had already got it on CD. Dammit, I haven’t. So now I’m searching high and low for a copy.… (altro)
 
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David.Bowie.Library | Jan 29, 2016 |
I love LKJ. I started out listening to him, esp. a cd called More Time. He writes and sings/reads in Jamaican creole and much of his work is political. One poem, Hurricane Blues, is a gorgeous extended metaphor about love found and lost, and I have it in recorded musical form, read by LKJ, and in the book. I even copied it into a sketchbook, translated into (more or less) standard English. I love the contact with his language, in the round as it were: the sound, shape, meaning, image of the words in the various formats.… (altro)
 
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jdukuray | 2 altre recensioni | Dec 31, 2014 |
Linton Kwesi Johnson, also known as LKJ, is the most celebrated of the dub poets, and Mi Revalueshanary Fren is an excellent introduction to LKJ and dub poetry. He was born in Jamaica, and moved to Britain as a child in the early 1960s, a period in which thousands of Jamaicans and other West Indians migrated to the UK. The new arrivals experienced a great deal of culture shock and prejudice, and most had to work in menial and degrading jobs. During the Thatcher administration there were several notable clashes between the residents of Brixton, a London neighborhood that was home for many of these immigrants, and the police, including the 1981 Brixton Riot. LKJ describes the simmering tension in Brixton in "All Wi Doin Is Defendin", which was written before the Brixton riot.

Other poems in this volume provide a history and commentary of the experiences of West Indian immigrants in London, both good and bad. There is a great deal of humor and joy in LKJ's poetry, along with the anger and bitterness that the community experienced. "New Crass Massakah" describes the tragic New Cross fire of 1981, in which 13 young blacks died during a house party, which many in the community felt was an act of arson.

LKJ is widely admired in the UK, and he is the second living poet to be published in the Penguin Classics series.

In addition to writing poetry, LKJ, along with other dub poets, reads his work over reggae music, and has released several albums under his label LKJ Records. This book also includes a CD, "A Cappella Live", which includes 14 poems from this volume.
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kidzdoc | 2 altre recensioni | Jan 24, 2009 |

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Utenti
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Popolarità
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Voto
4.1
Recensioni
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ISBN
13
Lingue
1
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