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| Ruby Bute |
Ruby Bute
is the first St. Martin woman to publish a volume of poetry. Her poems,
collected in this her first book, a seminal work, is fundamental to forming a
body of "S'maatin" literature, which is now as a fledgling phoenix
thrashing in the glowing coal keel of our Oral Tradition. Bute's success and
that of a genuine St. Martin people's literature, will be in the pursuit and
engagement of originality and excellence, and in so doing anneals its place as
a dynamic component of Our Caribbean's great oral/literary traditions.Golden
Voices of S'maatin is also about direction, the linking of Self into Nation,
and it achieves sincerely in being a (maybe pre-iconoclastic) gentle guide, and
generative of a "Sweet S'maatin" pride, an intense loving warmth, and
a family strength which is, however harassed of late, steeped in the folk
values and living culture of this Caribbean nation.
Golden Voices of S'maatin
by Ruby
Bute
Paperback,
poetry, 63 pp. (Second printing)
ISBN:
0-913441-25-3
Golden
Voices of S'maatin is about direction, the linking of Self into Nation, and it
achieves sincerely in being a (maybe pre-iconoclastic) gentle guide, and
generative of a sweet S'maatin pride, an intense loving warmth, and a family
strength which is, however harassed of late, steeped in the folk values and
living culture of this Caribbean nation.- Lasana M.
Sekou, Managing Editor, Newsday
[from the site of Nehesi Publishers]
