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Kwame Dawes

Bivouac

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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 poetryFew other novels encapsulate Jamaica's political upheavals so well. Protagonist Ferron Morgan agonizes over his father's death, maybe from a doctor's mistake, maybe from a radical rival's hands. Meanwhile, he's running from everything, including his own emotions about his fiancée--with sad results. Bivouac is not an easy or light book, but the immediacy Dawes creates is worth it.--Literary Hub, included in 5 Books You May Have Missed in A… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-61775-710-5
  • EAN: 9781617757105
  • Produktnummer: 27816387
  • Verlag: Akashic Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 248 S.
  • Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.2 cm 247 g
  • Gewicht: 247

Über den Autor


Kwame Dawes's debut novel She's Gone (Akashic) was the winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Debut Fiction). He is the author of twenty-one books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. In 2016, his book Speak from Here to There, a cowritten collection of verse with Australian poet John Kinsella, was released along with When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life, which Dawes edited. His most recent collection, City of Bones: A Testament, was published in 2017. His awards include the Forward Poetry Prize, the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, the Musgrave Silver Medal, several Pushcart Prizes, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and an Emmy Award. He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and is Chancellor Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. Dawes serves as the associate poetry editor for Peepal Tree Press and is director of the African Poetry Book Fund. He is series editor of the African Poetry Book Series-the latest of which is New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita)-and artistic director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. Dawes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2018 was elected as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

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