The Loss of Gordon Rohlehr (1942-2023)
The Loss of Gordon Rohlehr (1942-2023)
We in the Small Axe Project join the wider Caribbean intellectual community in mourning the loss of Gordon Rohlehr (1942-2023). He was a towering figure, and unforgettable: a literary-cultural critic of unrivaled attunement, with an unerring sense for the sounds and rhythms of Caribbean popular practices, and a seemingly inexhaustible archive of Caribbean literary history. "Man gone," as he put it, signing off on a "bookman's" lifetime of intellectual work.
Read Rohlehr's recent contribution to small axe, "A Literary Friendship: Selected Notes on the Correspondence with Kamau Brathwaite," made freely available here.
Screenshot of Professor Gordon Rohlehr taken from the YouTube video entitled ‘Professor Gordon Rohlehr (1942-2023)’ by Visual Art and Production.