Trench Town Rock, Kamau Brathwaite’s long documentarian song, affords insistent ‘nansic spin –a splay of clips, massed facts and faces, rare synaesthetic call and cry rolled into brash typographic distraint. Jimmied lines and real and would-be headlines lament the collapse of post-colonial promise into ongoing predation. The book says, “see see see until yu bline.”

-Nathaniel Mackey