REQUIEM FOR A GUERILLA
Those who have lived by fire, die in flame.
Those caught in the flare,
Are consumed, die
In the freedom of fire.
There is no other death
But death by fire.
All else is decay
Fire cauterises the cloth of ritual
And men canonised by flame,
Speak with tongues.
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.