Requiem
In these 'shrines of remembrance' for the millions of the victims of transatlantic slavery, Kwame Dawes constructs a sequence which laments, rages, mourns, but also celebrates survival. Focusing on individual moments in this holocaust which lasted nearly four hundred years, these poems both cauterize a lingering infection and offer the oil of healing. In these taut lyric pieces, Dawes achieves what might seem impossible: saying something fresh about a subject which, despite attempts at historical amnesia, will not go away. He does it by eschewing sentimentality, rant or playing to the audience, black or white. His poems go to the heart of the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-900715-07-2
- EAN: 9781900715072
- Produktnummer: 2575247
- Verlag: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 48 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B27.6 cm x D0.2 cm 88 g
- Abbildungen: illustrations
- Gewicht: 88
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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