A review by jdukuray
Mi Revalueshanary Fren by Linton Kwesi Johnson

5.0

I love LKJ. I started out listening to him, esp. a cd called More Time. He writes and sings/reads in Jamaican creole and much of his work is political. One poem, Hurricane Blues, is a gorgeous extended metaphor about love found and lost, and I have it in recorded musical form, read by LKJ, and in the book. I even copied it into a sketchbook, translated into (more or less) standard English. I love the contact with his language, in the round as it were: the sound, shape, meaning, image of the words in the various formats.