THE STATE OF exile is another theme that predominates West Indian writing, and it certainly permeates Kamau Brathwaite’s poetry. In the poem “Postlude/Home,” the poet poses a series of questions about the Black man’s place in the African Diaspora. These questions link the theme of exile to those of dispossession and deracination:

        What guilt
        now drives him on?

        Will exile never
        end?

        The memories
        are cold.