Gomer's Song - Paperback
by Kwame Dawes
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Akashic Books, Ltd.ISBN-13:9781933354446ISBN-10:1933354445UPC:9781933354446Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Caribbean & Latin American, AfricanSize:8.88 x 6.19 x 0.27 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SC5JXBQFER
Gomer's Song
Gomer's Song is a contemporary reinterpretation of a Bible story. Gomer, a harlot, was the wife of the Old Testament prophet Hosea. But even after her marriage to Hosea, she refused to conform to her expected role. In Gomer, poet Kwame Dawes finds the subject for a beautiful contemporary exploration on the cost of arriving at freedom with an uneasy grace.
Dawes examines the insidious nature...
Series: Black Goat
Language:EnglishPublisher:Akashic Books, Ltd.ISBN-13:9781933354446ISBN-10:1933354445UPC:9781933354446Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Caribbean & Latin American, AfricanSize:8.88 x 6.19 x 0.27 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SC5JXBQFER
Kwame Dawes is an award-winning Ghanian-born Jamaican author of several books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. He teaches at the University of South Carolina, where he is Distinguished Poet in Residence and director of the USC Arts Institute and the SC Poetry Initiative. Dawes is the programmer for the annual Jamaican Calabash International Literary Festival.
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
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