{"product_id":"midland-kwame-dawes-9780821413562","title":"Midland: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003ci\u003eMidland\u003c\/i\u003e, the seventh collection by Kwame Dawes, draws deeply on the poet's travels and experiences in Africa, the Caribbean, England, and the American South. Marked equally by a lushness of imagery, an urgency of tone, and a muscular rhythm, \u003ci\u003eMidland\u003c\/i\u003e, in the words of the final judge, Eavan Boland, is \"a powerful testament of the complexity, pain, and enrichment of inheritance...It is a compelling meditation on what is given and taken away in the acts of generation and influence. Of a father's example and his oppression. There are different places throughout the book. They come willfully in and out of the poems: Jamaica. London. Africa. America. But all the places become one place in the central theme and undersong here: which is displacement...The achievement of this book is a beautifully crafted voice which follows the painful and vivid theme of homelessness in and out of the mysteries of loss and belonging.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMidland\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of a keen and transcendent intellect, a collection of poems that speaks to the landscape from inside, from an emotional and experiential place of risk and commitment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kwame Dawes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821413562\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821413562\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/22\/2001 pg. 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2001 pg. 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2001 pg. 1096\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2001 pg. 67","brand":"Kwame Dawes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926521741567,"sku":"9780821413562","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_bd6e0cba-7ad8-4eb9-9868-bd03c5f0ef34.jpg?v=1681083527","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/midland-kwame-dawes-9780821413562","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}