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"Extremely worthwhile...Channer brings an Oliver Senior like narrativity to these sharp character sketches, and by deploying his keen novelist's eye he can trace the actions and effects of power on these men and their families in interesting and compelling language."
--Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
"Distinguished by a strong oral sense, it mixes Jamaican patois and American English, Rasta and reggae, also mixing voices in short and long forms as it progresses from the history and nature of the Jamaican police force to moving poems about 'mounds of buried hurt' in Caribbean society, where people are caught in an ordained sociology of poverty, humiliation, and other indignities. Providential begins with Channer’s own father and how his days on the force affected his family and the very idea of fatherhood. It includes a retrospective vision (in New England) by the poet of his Jamaican childhood as well as a contemporary exploration of the challenges of trying to be a better father for his own teenage son . . . An interesting volume that escapes the trap of colonial exoticism."
--World Literature Today
"This is such a brilliant 'toast,' this swift and pained and skimming history of Jamaica sweetly written by a poet with a cop dad. Providential does justice to the diasporic reality of places being 'there but not there,' including of course America, the poet's current home. Lush lists and light-footedness and keen word choices all restore a limb to our comprehension of colonial trauma and make this one of the most lucid and telling poetry books of this exact time."
--Eileen Myles, author of Snowflake
"Channer writes with a moving vulnerability and much lyric grace, revealing new facets to familiar themes--home, family, history, and the evolving journey of self. A universal, timeless meditation."
--Chris Abani, author of The Secret History of Las Vegas
"This one is an audacious and brilliant take on noir, written with pitch-perfect rhythm and a keen eye for supple, limber turns."
--Lorna Goodison, author of From Harvey River
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