Too bad I wasn't there to partake in some of this one-loving-peace that was Calabash in Jamaica recently. But better late than never. I going fuh de clean-up.
And while I cleaning up good and proper, those of you who wish you could be there with me can invest in these two books by Marlon James, and Geoffrey Philp (Philp's book is "temporarily out of stock" at Amazon Prime, but you can place a special order--does that come with an autograph?--here at Books & Books). I plan on reading James's book on the flights to and back (cause I won't have any time for reading down there. Ah hear the tourism clean-up crew is the hardest working crew of all in Jamaica...so ah hear it, so ah tell it). See yuh when I get back.
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And....
I'm currently working on a post on Michael Gilkes's Joanstown and Other Poems. I promise that too when I get back. Meanwhile, here are two lines from "Old Men Should Write" that I find hmmm-worthy:
Old men should write, not the young in their prime:
their past's too shallow to enfranchise them.
