Kwame Dawes: Sturge Town
Sturge Town
Buch
- Poems
- Blue Guides Limited of London, 08/2024
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781324076315
- Bestellnummer: 11742766
- Umfang: 160 Seiten
- Gewicht: 299 g
- Maße: 216 x 145 mm
- Stärke: 18 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 20.8.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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 through time, pursued by a keen sense of mortality, and engages in an intimate dialogue with the reader-serious, confessional, alarmed, and sometimes teasing. Metrically careful and sonorous, these poems engage in a personal dialogue with the reader, serious, confessional, alarmed and sometimes teasing. They create highly visualized spaces, observed, remembered, imagined, the scenes of both outward and inner journeys. Whether finding beauty in the quotidian or taking astonishing imaginative leaps, these poems speak movingly of self-reflection, family crises, loss, transcendence, the shattering realities of political engagement, and an unremitting investment in the vivid indeterminacy of poetry. Kwame Dawes
Sturge Town
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