Night 35: Maureen Warner-Lewis reads Kamau Brathwaite's Tano

Maureen Warner-Lewis reads Kamau Brathwaite's Tano, on the occasion of what would have been Brathwaite's 90th birthday. #40nightsofTheVoice
"The motif of time’s circularity, of life’s eternal cycle is not a new one in Brathwaite’s work. His insistence on this idea lend a sombre tone to “Shadow Suite,” published in Bim in 1950. In Masks though, the motif takes on a distinctly African dimension. In the poem Tano from Masks, this African dimension is captured by the incorporation of Akan dirges, by the rhythmic repetition and the poem's oxymorons and circular images" (Warner-Lewis, 1992)
Maureen Warner-Lewis is Professor Emeritus of Literatures in English at The University of the West Indies, Mona. She is the author of several books including E. Kamau Brathwaite's Masks: Essays & Annotations (1992) and Guinea's Other Suns: The African Dynamic in Trinidad Culture (1991, 2016).