Remember Wen?

Foster, Rodney

ISBN 10: 0963860445 / ISBN 13: 9780963860446

Published by Remember When Publishing, 2005

About this Item

About the book: Softcover. Third Printing. Personally inscribed by poet on title page. Book is in fine condition with mild wear. Feels unread. Additional photos available upon request.

Seller Inventory # 006706

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remember Wen?
• Publisher: Remember When Publishing
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0963860445
• ISBN 13: 9780963860446
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Foster, Rodney A; Gonzalez, Carlsbury
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Printing: 3rd Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed/Autographed
  • Poetry
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

"Remember Wen?" is an autobiographical collection of poems and short stories recounting the boyhood memories of Rodney Foster. As an introduction to a greater cross-section of people to Trinidad and Tobago society, Foster records his experiences as a person born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago and asks us to recall our own memories and experiences as we read his work.

"Remember Wen?" is full of companionship and advice. There is symbolism, appeal, and historic recordings intertwined in Foster’s “homeboy”, humorous writing style. Foster captures the human side of growing up in Trinidad and Tobago, and expresses his gratitude for the values bestowed through this experience. He employs a theme of love for the country of his birth, his fellow man, his life, his heritage, and his calling to capture the elements and traditions of the Trinidad and Tobago society which need to be preserved, but alas, are dying.

Review

...Remember Wen? is couched in the colloquial language of Trinidad and Tobago. This collection of short stories and poems employs the theme of love - love for country, love for fellowman, love for life, love for one's life calling - to capture some elements of the Trinidad and Tobago society which need to be preserved but are dying.

Foster captures the human side of growing up in Trinidad and Tobago and expresses his gratitude. His work is full of companionship and advice...

There is symbolism, appeal and historic recordings intertwined in his "homeboy," humorous writing style here, in a somewhat autobiographical collection of short stories and poems. ...Several ink sketches by Carlsbury Gonzalez which effectively depict the rustic quality of the life in the Trinidad and Tobago of which Foster writes, help to enhance this work... -- Mervyn O'Neil, Trinidad Guardian, June 11, 1991