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General Information:
Full Name: Kamau Brathwaite
Biography:
(1930-2020) Poet. Kamau Brathwaite was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, and died in Barbados.
Author's Timeline:
1930 (Unknown) County
Kamau Brathwaite was born Lawson Edward Brathwaite in Bridgetown, Barbados, on May 11, 1930. 
1992 New York County
Dr. Brathwaite began teaching comparative literature at New York University in 1992. 
2005 (Unknown) County
Born To Slow Horses
(Pub: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 0819567450 ISBN-13: 978-0819567451)
Collection of poetry. 
1967 (Unknown) County
Rights Of Passage
(Pub: Oxford University Press ISBN: 1125159146 ISBN-13: 978-1125159149)
Collection of poetry. 
1968 (Unknown) County
Masks
(Pub: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192112708 ISBN-13: 978-0192112705)
Collection of poetry. 
1969 (Unknown) County
Islands
(Pub: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192112848 ISBN-13: 978-0192112842)
Collection of poetry. 
1992 (Unknown) County
Middle Passages
(Pub: Bloodaxe Books ISBN: 1852242248 ISBN-13: 978-1852242244)
Collection of poetry. 
2001 (Unknown) County
Ancestors
(Pub: New Directions ISBN: 0811214486 ISBN-13: 978-0811214483)
Collection of poetry. 
2010 (Unknown) County
Elegguas
(Pub: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 978-0819569431)
Collection of poetry. 
1976 (Unknown) County
Black + Blues
(Pub: Casa de las Americas ISBN: )
Collection of poetry. 
1987 (Unknown) County
X/Self
(Pub: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192819871)
Collection of poetry. 
1964 (Unknown) County
Four Plays for Primary Schools
(Pub: Longman ISBN: 0582581265 ISBN-13: 978-0582581265)
 
2020 (Unknown) County
Kamau Brathwaite died at his home in Barbados on February 4, 2020. 
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