Midland / Kwame Dawes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville, 1962-

Series:

Hollis Summers Poetry Prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean poetry (English).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (105 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 me

Contents:

Inheritance; Hoarding; Ska Memory; Holy Dub; Liminal; Timehri; Memory: An Abstraction; Caricature; Sanctuary; Genocide; Sun Strokes; Map Maker; Two Premonitions; Eating with Fingers; Umpire at the Portrait Gallery; Reaper in a Wheat Field; Bridge; Cortege on Leyton High Road; Memory of a Garden; Excursion to Port Royal; Art Appreciation; History Cartoon; Gothic; Marriage; Hymn; Grace; The Glory; Baptism; Home Town; Parasite; Libation; Tornado Child; Satta: En Route to Columbia, S.C.; Belle; Hawk; Sabbath; Wisteria; Midland; Love Oil; Easter Sunday; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780821440926

0821440926

OCLC:

884004871