Night Vision Poems

"Because we see with history, / it is difficult to see through it. And yet we must / or we become it, become nothing else but history." It is this challenge, laid down in the powerful title poem of this collection, that Kendel Hippolyte takes up in Night Vision. The history Hippolyte penetrates is a history of the change overtaking the island of St. Lucia. Yet his poems, with their joyful linguistic energy, look beyond the glaring reality they contemplate to a more hopeful-if nighttime-vision. Book jacket.Hippolyte, Kendel is the author of 'Night Vision Poems', published 2006 under ISBN 9780810151635 and ISBN 0810151634.