Sturge Town: Poems - Paperback
by Kwame Dawes
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Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9781324123453ISBN-10:1324123451UPC:9781324123453Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:PlacesSize:8.26 x 5.63 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.3307Product ID:SCSJNMJFQ2
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, through Jamaica, and to the United States. The poet ranges through time, pursued by a keen sense of mortality, and engages in an intimate dialogue with the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9781324123453ISBN-10:1324123451UPC:9781324123453Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:PlacesSize:8.26 x 5.63 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.3307Product ID:SCSJNMJFQ2
Dawes, Kwame: - Kwame Dawes, the current poet laureate of Jamaica, is the author of numerous books of poetry and other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. His work has received international acclaim. He is a professor of Literary Arts at Brown and lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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