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Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Collected Poems, 1998–2020
Av Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Kwame Dawes m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
328 kr
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Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is the first major poet out of Africa's oldest republic of Liberia since the nation's founding and remains one of the most important poets from Africa. Spanning two decades of work, the poems in this collection tell stories of Wesley's homeland that would have otherwise been …
Prairie Schooner Book Prize
Tenth Anniversary Reader
Av James Engelhardt, Marianne Kunkel m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
237 kr
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After ten years of selecting great books from writers, new and established, Prairie Schooner celebrates the first decade of its Book Prize series by offering this collection of excerpts from each year's winners in fiction and poetry. Writers such as Brock Clarke, Anne Finger, Rynn Williams, and …
City of Bones
A Testament
Av Kwame Dawes
Häftad, 2017
313 kr
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As if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a revisioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament constitute a restless jeremiad for our times, and Dawes’s inimitable voice peoples this collection with …
Talk Yuh Talk
Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets
Inbunden, 2000
988 kr
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The interviews in this book reflect a range of Caribbean voices from several generations, from poets influenced by a dynamic interplay between the popular culture of reggae, calypso, folk music and ""yard"" theatre to those whose work is closer to classical forms of literature and oral narrative.
Talk Yuh Talk
Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets
Häftad, 2000
351 kr
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The interviews in this book reflect a range of Caribbean voices from several generations, from poets influenced by a dynamic interplay between the popular culture of reggae, calypso, folk music and ""yard"" theatre to those whose work is closer to classical forms of literature and oral narrative.
Midland
Poems
Av Kwame Dawes
Inbunden, 2000
400 kr
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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 …
Midland
Poems
Av Kwame Dawes
Häftad, 2000
251 kr
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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 …
Midland
Poems
Av Kwame Dawes
E-bok, 2000
390 kr
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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 …
Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius
Av Kwame Dawes
E-bok, 2012
143 kr
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The quintessential folk poet of the Third World, Bob Marley influenced generations of musicians and writers. He was a performer who held true to his religious and cultural heritage, who rallied against injustice, and who became an internationally revered musical icon. Renowned poet and scholar …
Resisting the Anomie
Av Kwame Dawes
Häftad, 1995
149 kr
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Resisting the Anomie is the second book of poetry by Kwame Dawes, whose collection Progeny of Air, won Britain's prestigious Forward Trust Poetry Prize for Best First Book in the fall of 1994.In Resisting the Anomie, Dawes takes as his subject the anxiety of being far from home, the unease of not …
When the Rewards Can Be So Great
Essays on Writing and the Writing Life
Av Kwame Dawes
Häftad, 2016
197 kr
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When the Rewards Can Be So Great
Essays on Writing and the Writing Life
Av Kwame Dawes
E-bok, 2016
155 kr
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When the Rewards Can Be So Great is a selection of craft talks delivered by faculty at the Pacific University MFA in Writing program. The essays in this exciting collection are at times deeply personal, providing insight into the development of the writers in their craft; and at times sharply …
Sturge Town
Poems
Av Kwame Dawes
Inbunden, 2024
368 kr
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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 …
Sturge Town
Poems
Av Kwame Dawes
Häftad, 2026
210 kr
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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 …
Nebraska
Poems
Av Kwame Dawes
Häftad, 2019
253 kr
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Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 he relocated to the United States and eventually found himself an American living in Lincoln, Nebraska.In Nebraska, this beautiful and evocative …
Letter from a Place I've Never Been
New and Collected Poems, 1986–2020
Av Hilda Raz, Kwame Dawes
Häftad, 2021
384 kr
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Hilda Raz has an ability “to tell something every day and make it tough,” says John Kinsella in his introduction. Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been shows readers the evolution of a powerful poet who is also one of the foremost literary editors in the country. Bringing together all seven of her …
Duppy Conqueror
New and Selected Poems
Av Kwame Dawes, Matthew Shenoda
Häftad, 2013
217 kr
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Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award, finalist. “Dawes’s verse has an expressive power and lyric resonance that can be attributed to a trans-Atlantic consciousness weaned on the spiritual sources of reggae.”— New York Times Book Review “Raised in Jamaica, Dawes …
WISTERIA
Av Kwame Dawes
Häftad, 2006
204 kr
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In Wisteria, Kwame Dawes finds poignant meaning in the landscape and history of Sumter, a small town in central South Carolina. Here the voices of women who lived through most of the twentieth century – teachers, beauticians, seamstresses, domestic workers and farming folk – unfold with the raw …
Seven Strong
Winners of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, 2006-2012
Av Kwame Dawes
Häftad, 2012
237 kr
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A collaboration between the South Carolina Poetry Initiative and the University of South Carolina Press, the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize is a celebration of accomplished and emerging poets linked together by their shared associations with the Palmetto State. Published on the seventh …
Seeking
Poetry and Prose Inspired by the Art of Jonathan Green
Av Marjory Wentworth, Kwame Dawes
E-bok, 2013
288 kr
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The best art has the uncanny ability not only to give pleasure to those who view it but also to led to a desire to respond. The best artists are a force for all art, and renowned Gullah artist Jonathan Green''s work has inspired a wide range of responses from artists around the world. In Seeking we …
She's Gone
Av Kwame Dawes
E-bok, 2007
170 kr
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"[A] diaspora of black culture and strong emotions, bordering the fine line between love and madness between two troubled people." —Booklist A prominent Jamaican reggae singer falls in love with an African-American woman while on tour in South Carolina. The two struggle to forge a relationship …
Saba: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition
Inbunden, 2020
700 kr
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Duppy Conqueror
New and Selected Poems
Av Kwame Dawes, Matthew Shenoda
E-bok, 2013
168 kr
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"[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 Today "Dawes asserts himself as man and artist and finally, with grace …
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition
Inbunden, 2021
714 kr
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Kumi Na Moja
New-Generation African Poets A Chapbook Box Set
Av Kwame Dawes, Kwame Dawes m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
434 kr
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THE LIMITED-EDITION BOX SET is a project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks every year by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today, and it is especially interested in featuring poets …
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook
Av Kwame Dawes, Chris Abani m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
203 kr
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TOWARD A LIVING ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN POETRY collects Kwame Dawes's and Chris Abani's introductory essays for the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set Series. These essays are conversations that celebrate the work of emerging African poets and build - meticulously and with principled care - a …
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series (Library Edition)
Av Kwame Dawes, Chris Abani m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
502 kr
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