Return to Streets of Eternity brings together, for the first time, poems written during a life-time of passionate engagement in anti-colonial, civil rights, black power and liberation movements, including many previously unpublished tributes to nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutionary leaders and to writers like Martin Carter, Dennis Brutus, Agostinho Neto, Andrew Salkey, Alejo Carpentier and Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Joy Gleason Carew, Associate Professor of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville, is the author of Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise. She met Jan Carew in 1974 and they spent the next thirty-seven years together.

Chris Searle has written or edited over fifty books, including The Forsaken Lover (winner of the 1973 Martin Luther King Award), Classrooms of Resistance, The World in a Classroom, Pitch of Life and Forward Groove. His collected poems, Lightning of Your Eyes, is published by Smokestack.