Nebraska : poems / Kwame Dawes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawes, Kwame, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nebraska--Poetry.

Nebraska.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (117 pages)

Place of Publication:

University of Nebraska Press 2019

Summary:

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 collection of poems, Dawes explores a theme constant in his work-the intersection of memory, home, and artistic invention. The poems, set against the backdrop of Nebraska's discrete cycle of seasons, are meditative even as they search for a sense of place in a new landscape. While he shovels snow or walks in the bitter cold to his car, he is engulfed with memories of Kingston, yet when he travels, he finds himself longing for the open space of the plains and the first snowfall. With a strong sense of place and haunting memories, Dawes grapples with life in Nebraska as a transplant.

Contents:

Epigraph PART I How I Became an Apostle Advent The Barking Geese of Edenton The Immigrant Contemplates Death Fledge Longing for the Hall of the Deaf The Midwestern Sky First Winter Loneliness Dark Season Plain-Speaking Novela The Scent of the Cankerworm Dawn Chadron Sandoz Revisited The Enemy of Memory The Poor Man's Sacrifice Bones Sponge On History PART II The Epoch of Lies Sea and Rain Purple Forgetting The Quality of Light In These Times Sugar "All Teeth and Smile" Sniper Long Distance Prairie Pleasure The Chronicler of Sorrows July Fourth PART III On Blindness Insomniac Bed Time Transplant Surviving, Again Sancho Panza The Messiness of Place Ambulation Falling Away On Picking Battles The Exile Remembers His Sisters Before Winter About Kwame Dawes

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496221445

1496221443

9781496221469

149622146X