Love Labor Liberation in Lasana Sekou - Howard E. Fergus

LOVE LABOR LIBERATION IN LASANA SEKOU 
Howard E. Fergus

LITERARY CRITICISM

The writings of Lasana M. Sekou have been compared to the works of a range of poets, from Aimé Césaire to Oswald Mtshali, from Kamau Brathwaite to Dylan Thomas, from E.E. Cummings to Linton Kwesi Johnson, but Fergus insists that “the voice that reaches us is sui generis, unique and Sekouesque.” Fergus throws wide ajar the doors to enter into Sekou’s poetics with authority and anticipation.

AUTHOR
HOWARD A. FERGUS, Ph.D., was born in Montserrat. He studied at the universities of the West Indies (UWI), Bristol, and Manchester. The literary critic and former UWI professor of Eastern Caribbean studies has published widely in the areas of history, education, and poetry. His books include Montserrat: History of a Caribbean Colony, History of Education in the British Leeward Islands 1838­-1945, Lara Rains and Colonial Rites,Calabash of Gold, and Volcano Verses. Dr. Fergus was the Speaker of the Montserrat Legislative Council (1974-2001) and has acted as Deputy Governor periodically since 1976. Awards include the University Vice Chancellor’s Award of Excellence and a knighthood (KBE) by Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth of England. Love, Labor, Liberation in Lasana Sekou is his most recent title.
Other poetry collections are: The Arrow Poems and Saturday Soup (2010), Poems From Behind God Back (2011) and Obama and other poems (2012).

PRODUCT SPECIFICATION
English | paperback | 172 pages | House of Nehesi Publishers | St. Martin | 2007