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Rotten Apples: We've Made Wormsmeat of Education

Name: Rotten Apples: We've Made Wormsmeat of Education
Author: Patricia Powell
ISBN: 9781403371140

by Patricia Powell

ISBN: 9781403371140

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Poetry, one of history's oldest art forms, gives social credibility to creation. Within every culture, past or present, poetry gives insight into collective identity. Poetry is a universal language that all human beings ... Poetry, one of history's oldest art forms, gives social credibility to creation. Within every culture, past or present, poetry gives insight into collective identity. Poetry is a universal language that all human beings hear, speak, and understand. Brother David Sawyers belongs to the human family. And he loves, feels, and knows great truths and lyrically expresses them in the pages that follow. As a creative Ethiopian descendant from Jamaica, David Sawyers' nature is unquestionably dynamic. He came forward from the mighty mountains and rolling hills, which suggest in itself a firm commitment to the struggles for unity. This skillful brother uses the word as power to convey life's realities. He dialectically utilizes the power of words ugly and beautiful, weak and strong. His words are convictions, commitments, truth of old-don't cry, rejoice. Herein are Ethiopian realities-confinement, chaotic experiences and dreams of mystery Babylon. Brother David, like David in the Bible, best describes his observations when he chants that "it's over 400 years and we (INI) have not been broken . . . still striving . . . nor begging anything . . . now demanding . . . Judah rules" (21). Like black poet Langston Hughes, his stylistic approach represents continuity and empathy. Rare poetry. Forerunners of new black poetry are Amiri Baraka, formerly LeRoi Jones, but there are also others whose impacts are tremendously important. Poet such as David Sawyers, a good man and scholar, humble, patient, angry at times, and always . . . Exodus (Movement of Jah people). One may have heard the rhythmic lyrics of dub poets, including Mutaburuka, Sam Brown, Oku Onuora, and Ras Pidow to name a few; now read Sawyers "The Heroes of my Country" (24). He brings to life Paul Bogle and Quashi, in myth and wit in Briar Anancy and Tacoma, Sam Sharp, Nanny, Chugghu, and Marcus Garvey. Combined is history and class, working people rights, and survival in the multiracial nonracial way. These poetic words pu

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