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Coolie
Odyssey
by
David Dabydeen
(2006
– Reprinted)
price:
UK pounds
£3.95
US
dollars $6.25
Paperback 56 pp
198 x 129m
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870518 69 1
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David Dabydeen’s first book of poems, Slave Song, was awarded the
Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Cambridge University Quiller-Couch Prize.
Coolie Odyssey, his second collection, probes the experience of diaspora,
the journeying of peasant labourers from India to the Caribbean then to
Britain, dwelling on the dream of romance, the impotence of racial
encounter, the metamorphosis of language.
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