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Special thanks to Norvan Fullerton for allowing me use of his robber speech, Barbara Temple-Thurston and Pacific Lutheran University, Kelly Hewson and Bill Schwarz for support; Laurie and Tessa Watkins for their unforgettable hospitality; Margaret Busby, Funso Aiyejina and Alake Pilgrim for reading and responding to the manuscript; and Derek Walcott for the generosity of his presence and work.
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Also from Haymarket Books
Field Notes on Democracy • Arundhati Roy
Notes from the Middle World • Breyten Breytenbach
Essays • Wallace Shawn
Black Power Mixtape • Edited by Göran Hugo Olsson
Palante • Young Lords Party, photographs by Michael Abramson, introduction by Iris Morales
About the Author
Earl Lovelace was born in Toco, Trinidad, and has spent most of his life on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. He has been a journalist, has been Writer-in-Residence at the University of the West Indies and at universities in the United States and Britain, and has given lectures and readings and participated in conferences internationally. His books have been translated into German, Dutch, French, Italian, Japanese, and Hungarian, and his short stories have been widely anthologized. His books include The Wine of Astonishment, While Gods Are Falling, winner
of the BP Independence Award, the Caribbean classic
The Dragon Can’t Dance, and Salt, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Robyn Cross