Letters from the Black ArkD. S. Marriott The poems in this collection center on the word "dub," which accrues a subtle lyrical connotation throughout its various forms and meanings to bestow, vest, crown, and also to suspend, reverb, echo, and sever. Dub poetry plays with revealing and concealing, while also pointing the way to the conditions that produce black poetic music. In D. S. Marriott's poetry, tragic catastrophes of current black existence London knife crime, the