The Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite¿s work is the site for the question(s): what happens to language in the break of dispossession? My project interjects, momentarily, into the long and distinguished secondary literature on Brathwaite¿s oeuvre of Afro-Caribbean poetics to think along the questions/answers of (mis)representation and dispossession that it offers. Brathwaite¿s poetic and theoretical works whirlpool with these questions and exert their pressures upon the viability of language when confronted with subjectivity¿s devastation. His echo puts pressure on the mode of poetry and language by way of its linguistic mis-routings and slippages in a rootlessness that is historical. In my chapters outline, I outline and read Brathwaite¿s linguistic innovations through which he writes on and of black Caribbean subjectivity and the inescapability of fracture.