The Tower of Diverse Shores

by Leonard Schwartz

Poetry. "When a (young) Empire for the first time suffers invasion, hurt, pain, a casting off of symbols, trauma before the closing of ranks, vessels, values, there is also a reconsideration—at best a reconstitution—of the very tissues of language as if the culture has to learn how to speak all over again, to see itself—if lucky—fresh. A beginning which is made here, in these remarkable poems by Leonard Schwartz. THE TOWER OF DIVERSE SHORES is one of the finest collection of this new post-catastrophe generation."
—Kamau Brathwaite

117 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2003