This morning after
nervous jumpy
I cut the face in the glass
At the party
I’d only asked
the elegante lady
and her rich liquescent man
what’s the standard
of physical beauty
in our multiracial society
Later
the lady
refused to introduce
her bathing beauty daughter to me
This morning after
nervous jumpy
I cut the black face in the glass
New World Journal provides insights into the birth, flourishing and eventual demise of one of the region's most influential intellectual movements. Presented online, they constitute an invaluable record of significant intellectual expressions and political developments in the Anglophone Caribbean in the early post-colonial period. In all, 14 issues of the physical journal appeared between 1963 and 1972.