Duppy Conqueror
New and Selected Poems
[Dawes] is highly original and intelligent, possessing poetic sensibility that is rooted and sound, unshakeable and unstopped, both in its vibrancy and direction. He writes poetry as it ought to be written.-World Literature TodayDawes asserts himself as man and artist and finally, with grace achieved and grace said, sits down to begin life's tragic feast . . . a writer of major significance.-Brag BookThe notion of a reggae aesthetic-of the language moving to a different rhythm, under different kinds of pressure . . . underpins all Dawes' work as poet.-Stewart BrownBorn in Ghana, raised in Jamaica, and educated in Canada, Kwame Dawes is a dyna…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Shenoda, Matthew (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-61932-083-3
- EAN: 9781619320833
- Produktnummer: 22559324
- Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 260 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 695 KB
Über den Autor
Kwame Dawes: Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana in 1962 and moved with his family to Jamaica at the age of ten. He is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, two novels, four anthologies, numerous essays, and has seen fifteen of his plays produced. In 2009 he was awarded an Emmy for his interactive website, LiveHopeLove.com. Since 2011 he has taught at the University of Nebraska as a Chancellor's Professor of English as well as the Editor of Prairie Schooner. He is a Cave Canem faculty member and teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.Matthew Shenoda: Matthew Shenoda has coedited four previous anthologies including From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea Books, 2009) and Enough: Poets Against the War (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003). Associate Dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts at Columbia College Chicago, Shenoda's collection of poetry Somewhere Else (Coffeehouse Press, 2005) was named a 2005 debut book of the year by Poets and Writers and his second collection Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone was published in 2009 by BOA editions. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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