Bookshelf 2023: "imagination leaping"

...the tenth published collection by much-anthologized St Lucian poet, journalist, and librarian John Robert Lee [...] inspired by a brief pilgrimage to the Port-of-Spain neighborhood that spawned calypsonians David Rudder and Shadow. It opens with an homage (“On Sticks of Oars”) to St Lucian sculptor Jallim Eudovic’s monumental work [...] And then on to Walcottian-cadenced images of Trinidad, with his imagination leaping between Ithaka and Trench Town, Babylon ever-present, and the sounds of kaiso, reggae, zouk, and konpa in the streets and yards, and with Christian invocations, prayers, and canticles never far away.