Author: Kwame Senu Neville DawesPublisher: UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press
ISBN: 9781893311480
Category : Ghanaian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Bruised Totems
Author: Kwame Senu Neville DawesPublisher: UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press
ISBN: 9781893311480
Category : Ghanaian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Duppy Conqueror
Author: Kwame DawesPublisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619320835
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"[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 achieved and grace said, sits down to begin life's tragic feast . . . a writer of major significance."—Brag Book "The 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 Brown Born in Ghana, raised in Jamaica, and educated in Canada, Kwame Dawes is a dynamic and electrifying poet. In this generous collection, new poems appear with the best work from fifteen previous volumes. Deeply nuanced in exploring the human condition, Dawes' poems are filled with complex emotion and consistently remind us what it means to be a global citizen. From "The Lessons": Fingers can be trained to make shapes that, pressed just right on the gleaming keys, will make a sound that can stay tears or cause them to flow for days. Anyone can learn to make some music, but not all have the heart to beat out the tunes that will turn us inside out. . . Kwame Dawes is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, two novels, four anthologies, and numerous essays and plays. In 2009 he won an Emmy Award for his interactive website, LiveHopeLove.com. Since 2011 he has taught at the University of Nebraska, and lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
CLASH OF THE TOTEMS and the Lost Magaecians
Author: Yonnie GarberPublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803138866
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
We are responsible for slowly destroying our planet... but what if we’re wrong? What if it’s the planet that is slowly destroying us? The Earth’s fate may well hinge on just one girl.
The Belt of Seven Totems
Author: Kirk MunroePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Enslaved persons
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Clash of the Totems and the Catastrophe of Callistus
Author: Yonnie GarberPublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803134844
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Alone you can make a change, but together we make a difference. Join Ellery in her second year at the Quinton Earth Science School as one by one, another friend goes missing — lost without a trace. But Ellery is also on the verge of losing herself. Unable to cope with being the chosen one to bring back balance to Mother Earth, she's hell-bent on scorning those that love her most. Conflicted about her feelings, and considering the prospect of siding with the most nefarious person on the planet, she blatantly disobeys her teachers, leading her closest classmates into jeopardy. Now she must battle with nature’s most powerful totem and risk losing everything to save her friends - but will she ultimately give away humanity’s last chance to remain on the planet in the process? One last nail-biting adventure in the ultimate totem battle in this concluding story of Clash of the Totems, where the Earth’s fate hinges once more with this reckless, but extraordinarily brave teenager.
Gomer's Song
Author: Kwame DawesPublisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 9781933354446
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Gomer, an Old Testament harlot, was the non-conformist wife of the prophet Hosea. In Dawes' contemporary reinterpretation of this Bible story, he presents a beautiful and sometimes erotic exploration of the cost of arriving at freedom with an uneasy grace. Dawes examines the insidious qualities of power, the confining nature of gender roles and the limits of protest. Through Gomer's journey, readers are asked to consider how each one of us is able to express our own defiance, as well as to tally the costs of our individuality.
Wisconsin African Studies News & Notes
Author: A Far Cry from Plymouth Rock
Author: Kwame Senu Neville DawesPublisher: Peepal Tree Press
ISBN: 9781845230258
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
After ten years of living and working in South Carolina, of trying to manage a writing career that spans the USA, the UK and Jamaica, the question of where was home had become insistent. In this deeply personal narrative, Dawes explores the experiences that bring him to indecision.
Impossible Flying
Author: Kwame Senu Neville DawesPublisher: Peepal Tree Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Dawes' most personal and universal collection, 'telling family secrets to strangers'. The family secrets focus primarily on the triangular relationship between the poet, his father and younger brother.
Hope's Hospice
Author: Kwame Senu Neville DawesPublisher: Peepal Tree Caribbean Poetry
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Frank and earnest, this moving collection of poetry offers a glimpse into the support centers and hospice outside of Montego Bay and the many lives that have been lost to HIV/AIDS in Jamaica. Culled from open dialogue with sufferers and those who care for them, and coupled with evocative photographs, AIDS becomes a channel for universal dramas, archetypal voices, stoicism, despair, and deeply human deceptions. Full of memories of a time when diagnosis was equivalent to a death sentence, each piece brings the lives of the indiscriminant victims to the forefront and battles the notion that this can only happen to others.