Limbo (Brathwaite poem)

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"Limbo" is a poem by Barbadian poet Edward Kamau Brathwaite.

It describes the similarity between a limbo dance and the transportation of African slaves into the West Indies and America.[1]


References

  1. ↑ Chamberlin, J. Edward (1993). Come back to me my language: poetry and the West Indies. University of Illinois Press. p. 186. ISBN 0-252-06297-3. 
Poems from
Other Cultures
Cluster 1
Cluster 2
Seamus Heaney
  • "Storm on the Island"
  • "Perch"
  • "Blackberry-Pickin]"
  • "Death of a Naturalist"
  • "Digging"
  • "Mid-Term Break"
  • "Follower"
  • "At a Potato Digging"
Gillian Clarke
Carol Ann Duffy
Simon Armitage
  • "Mother, any distance greater than a single span"
  • "My father thought it..."
  • "Homecoming"
  • "November"
  • "Kid"
  • "Those bastards in their mansions"
  • "I've made out a will; I'm leaving myself"
  • "Hitcher"
Pre-1914
Prose
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