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 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, Midland, 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…
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Noch nicht erschienen, Oktober 2021
Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8214-4092-6
- EAN: 9780821440926
- Produktnummer: 34755360
- Verlag: Ohio University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana, grew up in Jamaica, and studied and taught in New Brunswick, Canada. He has published five volumes of poetry, an anthology of reggae poetry, and a critical volume on reggae music and literature. His first book of poems, Progeny of Air, won the prestigous Forward Poetry Prize. He teaches at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
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