Jamaica: View from Mount Diablo

“Two facts to bear in mind: I am white and I am 80 years old. the first precludes me from using Emancipation or any other black triumph as a poetic epiphany; the second allows me to focus, more or less, on an 80 year span of Jamaican history to which I can be a personal witness”: Litblogger Geoffrey Philp features poet Ralph C. Thompson in his own words.

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