02862cam a2200457 4500 1543726349 TxAuBib 20240829120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781324076322 1324076321 B0CK3HWVY4 Amazon b1164332-2ebb-43df-aec4-ec6ac4f0ec3c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10180849 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Dawes, Kwame. Sturge Town [Libby] : Poems. W. W. Norton & Company, 2024. black writers. poetry collections. southern writers. african american poetry. american poets. black poetry. african poetry. new poetry. award-winning poets. southern poets. ghanaian poetry. ghanaian writer. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 924kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Poetry. HTML:<p><strong>In this stunning volume, acclaimed poet Kwame Dawes explores the mythic, ancestral, and spiritual journeys that make up a life.</strong></p> <p>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.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-08-28 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b1164332-2ebb-43df-aec4-ec6ac4f0ec3c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b1164332-2ebb-43df-aec4-ec6ac4f0ec3c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b1164332-2ebb-43df-aec4-ec6ac4f0ec3c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)