The Trini’s off-hand and carefree way with words continues to amaze.
I was in the Clico headquarters building in Port of Spain when I ran into a long-ago neighbour who lived across the road from me, on Prince Street, in Arima.
Limped, I should say, rather than ran into, to be exact. She queried my gait and [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Poetry in Real Time
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From Pakistan with Love
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Passing through Gallup, New Mexico, Janice, ever fascinated by woven baskets, picked up a lovely specimen, to find that, true, it was hand made, but hand made in Pakistan.
In this redoubt of Native American activity and culture, where the price of artifacts was drastically reduced because gas-conscious visitors were down, as were sales, it was [...]
Arnold Rampersad
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I finally caught up with Arnold Rampersad. In early May I got an e-mail from him: he was due in Trinidad to give the Eric Williams Memorial Lecture on May 23. That meant I would miss a possible meeting with him since I was to visit there myself, but in the following month, which I [...]
Bravo dog
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The West Texas sun threw long shadows, and one of Amy’s dogs angled himself onto a shadow of an oak on the lawn and gratefully stretched out in the shade.
Though undoubtedly unaware of the work of Manuel Alvarez Bravo, the dog nevertheless replicated the famous photo by the Mexican photographer of a paisano relaxing in [...]
Haiku from Port of Spain
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Haiku and Port of Spain are like oil and water.
One is cool, restrained, revelatory. The other is a conflicted whirligig mired in uncertainty. To find a book of Haiku from that setting is, therefore, something of a miracle.
Yet, that is what Alec de Verteuil and Dawn Glashier have pulled off in a gem of a [...]
Thanks to Louis and Skye
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to a Seattle ex-pat Trini and my daughter, Skye, a blog is born!
When my column in the Trinidad Express ended in May, Louis Sellier, a fan of the column, suggested another outlet: a blog. This advice coincided with a similar notion from my daughter in Trinidad, herself in the writing business, and a blogger.
I [...]
