Dec 31, 2009
Wilson Harris’s first published novel appeared in 1960, when he was thirty-nine. Before this, his creative efforts were mainly in poetry, which, given the poetic-prose of his novels, is not surprising. He published a few volumes of poems, including Fetish (1951), issued under the pseudonym Kona Waruk, and Eternity to Season (1954). While the first collection is perceived as apprenticeship material, the second is generally praised and seen as complementary to his early novels; it anticipates the novels’ symbolic use of the Guyanese...
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