Sturge Town : poems

Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville 1962- (author.).

Summary:

In this stunning volume, acclaimed poet Kwame Dawes explores the mythic, ancestral, and spiritual journeys that make up a life. 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. 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.

Item details

ISBN: 1324076313
ISBN: 9781324076315
Physical Description: 149 pages ; 22 cm
print
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, 2024.
Copyright: ©2023

Contents / Notes

General Note:

"First published in Great Britain in 2023 by Peepal Tree Press Ltd."
Title page verso.

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Subject:

Spirituality Poetry
Families Poetry
Loss (Psychology) Poetry
Transcendence (Philosophy) Poetry
Caribbean poetry (English) 21st century
Jamaica Poetry
Spirituality
Loss (Psychology)
Transcendence (Philosophy)
Jamaica

Genre:

Poésie.
Poésie autobiographique.
Mythes.
Myths.
Autobiographical poetry.
Poetry.
poetry.

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