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  • Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden

    Borrowing from Romare Bearden's aesthetic palette and inspired by his Odysseus series, Bearden's Odyssey gathers, for the first time, poems from thirty-five of the most revered African diaspora poets in the United States. Poetic echoes come forth in themes of inspiration with historical intersections...
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  • Bivouac by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Bivouac

    The death of a Jamaican man's father raises questions about the father's political endeavors, and about the plight of 1980s Jamaica.Kwame Dawes has been named a 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize Recipient in poetry"Few other novels encapsulate Jamaica's political upheavals so well. Protagonist Ferron Morgan agonizes...
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  • Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius

    This in-depth analysis of the reggae superstar's poetry in lyric form delves into the songwriter's intellect and spirituality with scholarly precision usually more associated with Bob Dylan or John Lennon. Thought of as the folk poet of the developing world, Marley influenced generations of...
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  • City of Bones: A Testament by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    City of Bones: A Testament

    As if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a re-visioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament constitute a restless jeremiad for our times, and Dawes's inimitable...
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  • Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems

    Paterson Award for Literary Excellence.Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award, finalist. "Dawes's verse has an expressive power and lyric resonance that can be attributed to a trans-Atlantic consciousness weaned on the spiritual sources of reggae."--New York Times Book Review"Raised in Jamaica, Dawes takes some of...
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  • Gomer's Song by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Gomer's Song

    Gomer's Song is a re-rendering of the Bible story. In Gomer, a harlot who was the wife of the Old Testament prophet Hosea, Kwame Dawes finds the subject for a beautiful contemporary exploration on freedom and sacrifice. Kwame Dawes is an award-winning Ghanaian-born Jamaican...
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  • Midland: Poems by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Midland: Poems

    The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice. Midland, the seventh collection by Kwame Dawes, draws deeply on the poet's travels...
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  • Midland: Poems by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Midland: Poems

    The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice. Midland, the seventh collection by Kwame Dawes, draws deeply on the poet's travels...
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  • Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set

    This fourteen-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of thirteen new African poets.The African Poetry Book Fund's New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set is one of the most important annual literary projects, presenting to a wide audience the...
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  • Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition

    This is the limited hardcover anthology edition of Nane: New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set, featuring the work of thirteen new African poets."The African Poetry Book Fund's New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set is one of the most important annual literary...
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  • Natural Mysticism: Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Natural Mysticism: Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic

    The first book ever to look in-depth at reggae as an artistic form, "Natural Mysticism" shows how reggae combines politics, sex, spirituality and art, and offers in depth analyzes of leading reggae artists such as Burning Spear, Lee Scratch Perry and Bob Marley.Author: Kwame...
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  • Nebraska: Poems by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Nebraska: Poems

    Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 he relocated to the United States and eventually found himself an American living in Lincoln, Nebraska. This...
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  • New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne) by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne)

    Edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani, the yearly poetry chapbook set is a delightful combination of emerging African poets. This year's collection is no less ambitious in its scope: Nne introduces poets of a singular talent, exploring themes of belonging, questioning lands and...
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  • New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita) by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita)

    "A limited edition, 11-piece box set that features 10 new African poets."--New York Times Book Review, "Globetrotting," April 2019Included in African Book Addict's List of 2019 Anticipated Releases"Akashic's annual project to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today enters its fourth...
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  • New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano) by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano)

    "This annual anthology of emerging African poets edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani introduces new poets, each with a chapbook as part of the boxed set. The anthology, along with other projects of the African Poetry Book Fund, is credited with publishing the...
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  • Prophets by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Prophets

    Set in Jamaica in the late 1980s and 1990s, Prophets is a poem of rhythmic and metaphoric inventiveness, which "loads every rift... with ore." It brings together an exacting a portrayal of the social and cultural resonances of Jamaican society with a soaring mythopoeic...
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  • Saba: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Saba: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set

    Akashic Books' chapbooks boxset of African poetry has delighted lovers of poetry for 6 years. The latest collection features 11 new voices. Get ready to be inspired and edified with the power of poetic expression.--Brittle Paper, One of 50 Notable African Books of 2020Praise...
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  • Saba: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Saba: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition

    Praise for the chapbook series: "Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short collections by contemporary poets from Africa, packaged together in beautiful boxed sets."--New York Times Magazine"An ambitious, vital project that delivers exactly what it promises...As a group, the...
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  • She's Gone by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    She's Gone

    A prominent Jamaican reggae singer falls in love with an African American woman while on tour in South Carolina. The two struggle to forge a relationship across a cultural and psychological divide in a story that spans from Jamaica to South Carolina to New...
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  • So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival

    Contributors include: Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Elizabeth Alexander, Amiri Baraka, Martin Espada, Terrance Hayes, Valzyna Mort, Sonia Sanchez, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Patricia Smith, Saul Williams, Staceyann Chin, and 88 others. Imagine a night of a hundred poets reading their work to an audience of...
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  • Speak from Here to There by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Speak from Here to There

    For six months during 2015, two poets known for their capacity to create lyric responses to the complex realities around them, yet poets fully inscribed in both a western literary tradition and other longer traditions that have been marginalized, exchanged poems that were in...
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  • Sturge Town: Poems by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Sturge Town: Poems

    The site of the ruined ancestral home of Kwame Dawes's family, in one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica, Sturge Town is at once a place of myth and, for Dawes, a metaphor of the journeying that has taken him from Ghana,...
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  • Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set

    This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of eleven new African poets."Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short collections by contemporary poets from Africa, packaged together in beautiful boxed sets." --New York Times...
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  • Twenty: South Carolina Poetry Fellows by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Twenty: South Carolina Poetry Fellows

    The poets include: Paul Allen, Jan Bailey, Cathy Smith Bowers, Jessica Bundschuh, Stephen Corey, Robert Cumming, Debra Daniel, Carol Ann Davis, Curtis Derrick, Linda Ferguson, Starkey Flythe, Angela Kelly, John Lane, Susan Ludvigson, Terri McCord, John Ower, Ron Rash, Paul Rice, Warren Slesinger, and...
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  • Wheels by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Wheels

    Using the power of language to explore and discover patterns of meaning, this collection brings the lyric poem face to face with the external worldwith its politics, social upheavals, and ideological complexity. Whether it is a poem about a near victim of a terrorist...
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  • When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life

    When the Rewards Can Be So Great is a selection of craft talks delivered by faculty at the Pacific University MFA in Writing program. The essays in this exciting collection are at times deeply personal, providing insight into the development of the writers in...
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