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Winner of the prize for the best first collection in the Forward Poetry Prize of 1994, Progeny of Air explores a childhood and youth spent in 1970's Jamaica. The collection links inner personal experience and social and historical perspectives to mutually enriching effect.
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9781900715836 | 2 revised edition (Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, July 1, 2003), cover price $12.95
9780948833687 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, January 1, 1994, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Winner of the prize for the best first collection in the Forward Poetry Prize of 1994, Progeny of Air explores a childhood and youth spent in 1970's Jamaica.
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9780864921475 | Goose Lane Editions, March 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Resisting the Anomie is the second book of poetry by Kwame Dawes, whose collection Progeny of Air, won Britain's prestigious Forward Trust Poetry Prize for Best First Book in the fall of 1994.
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9781900715065 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, January 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Poor sower of seeds with a gift for dreaming, Jacko Jacobus knows that his destiny is to found a people to shake the nations.
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9781900715072 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, November 1, 1996, cover price $17.95
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9781900715140 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, December 1, 1997, cover price $17.95
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9780948833854 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, September 1, 1998, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: As 24-hour television, belching out the swaggering voices of American hellfire preachers, competes with dancehall, slackness and ganja for Jamaican minds, Clarice and Thalbot preach their own conflicting visions.
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9781900715225 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, July 1, 1999, cover price $29.95
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9780060240899, titled "Lucas Fishbone" | Harpercollins Childrens Books, September 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | also contains Lucas Fishbone | About this edition: The imaginary Lucas Fishbone fosters a special relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter.
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9780864921994 | Goose Lane Editions, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The beat and language of reggae arose from the Jamaican countryside and the sidewalks of Kingston, but they're basic for the poets represented in Wheel and Come Again.
9781900715133 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, July 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This is an anthology to delight both lovers of reggae and lovers of poetry which sings light as a feather, heavy as lead over the bedrock of drum and bass.
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9780863569739 | Al Saqi, December 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: "Abaniâs poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts to the heart of human strength, survival and tyranny.
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9780864922991 | Goose Lane Editions, March 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Kwame Dawes is one of the premiere reggae poets of our time.
9780821413562 | Ohio Univ Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $14.95
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9780813919454 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Before the Caribbean-inflected spoken-word poetry of the 1990s, epitomized by poetry slams at the Nuyorican Poets Café in Manhattan, there was reggae.
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9780813919461 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $29.50 | About this edition: Before the Caribbean-inflected spoken-word poetry of the 1990s, epitomized by poetry slams at the Nuyorican Poets Café in Manhattan, there was reggae.
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9780821413555 | Ohio Univ Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice.
Product Description: A new play for Britain's leading black theatre company, with a premiere at London's Lyric Theatre in July 2001 Hot, humid, downtown Kingston, Jamaica. The 1970s. Streets pulse with reggae, rhythm and dub. Brotherman is a local Rastafarian guru who heals, preaches and tries hard to live a righteous life...read more
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9780413771315 | Gardners Books, July 5, 2001, cover price $12.15 | About this edition: A new play for Britain's leading black theatre company, with a premiere at London's Lyric Theatre in July 2001 Hot, humid, downtown Kingston, Jamaica.
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9780825673528 | Bobcat Books, October 1, 2007, cover price $24.95
9781860744334 | Bobcat Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $18.95
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9781900715706 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, November 1, 2002, cover price $22.95
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9781900715485 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, December 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Kwame Dawes puts the "reggae aesthetic" to work in these stories of contemporary Jamaica.
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9780803718944 | Dial Books for Young Readers, December 22, 2004, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A poem and portraits of children illustrate the shared beauty and heritage of people of African descent living throughout the world.
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9781891885396 | Hub City Pr, January 30, 2005, cover price $19.95
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9781597090599 | Red Hen Pr, January 1, 2006, cover price $18.00
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9781845230395 | 1 edition (Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, August 1, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Renowned poet Kwame Dawes presents his most personal and universal work in this collection of carefully arranged poems.
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9781933354187 | Akashic Books, January 3, 2007, cover price $16.95
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9781933354446 | Akashic Books, September 1, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Award-winning Kwame Dawes explores the insidious nature of power and the limits of protest.
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9781845230258 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, September 30, 2007, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Directly addressing the relationship with his father, a Marxist Caribbean nationalist, Kwame Dawes presents a memoir of intellectual rigor that is coupled with great tenderness.
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9781845230784, titled "Hope's Hospice and Other Poems" | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, April 1, 2009, cover price $14.95
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9781845231248 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, April 1, 2010, cover price $16.95
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