Bread by Kamau Brathwaite
About the author
Caribbean poet
Biblical Allusions
title → white dream → sacrifice of Isaac → dream of the soil → When Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden flesh of god → balaam →
Paints a picture of poverty, of starvation, of nothing sanctimonious
wife has to sell herself to feed her family
bread = sustenance; and even that is dwindling
about how life has become hopeless
contrast between haves and havenots (motorcars while the wife is stripped to bare minimum)