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Kwame Dawes has written 48 work(s)
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9780825673528 | Bobcat Books, October 1, 2007, cover price $24.95
9781860744334 | Bobcat Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $18.95
Product Description: 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. With the immediacy of a man thinking aloud and the careful structure of art that recalls the places that have molded his lifeâfrom Ghana and Jamaica to Canada and AmericaâDawes explores the nearly universal conditions of migrants...read more
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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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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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9781933354187 | Akashic Books, January 3, 2007, cover price $16.95
Product Description: Renowned poet Kwame Dawes presents his most personal and universal work in this collection of carefully arranged poems. Separated into four thematic sections, these poems reveal the author's family secrets with an overarching coherence and meaning, focusing primarily on the triangular relationship between himself, his father, and his younger brother...read more
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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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9781597090599 | Red Hen Pr, January 1, 2006, cover price $18.00
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9781891885396 | Hub City Pr, January 30, 2005, cover price $19.95
School and Library:
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.
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.
Product Description: Kwame Dawes puts the "reggae aesthetic" to work in these stories of contemporary Jamaica. His characters murder, go mad, abuse, love, create, seek personal salvation and the fullest expression of their sensuality with an astonishing but wholly believable intensity...read more
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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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9781900715706 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, November 1, 2002, cover price $22.95
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.
Product Description: 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. Midland, the seventh collection by Kwame Dawes, draws deeply on the poet's travels and experiences in Africa, the Caribbean, England, and the American South...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
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: Kwame Dawes is one of the premiere reggae poets of our time. A musician, actor, scholar, and writer with roots in Ghana, the Caribbean, and Canada, Dawes is one of those rare artists who can move from lyrics to poetry in a single beat...read more
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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
Product Description: Before the Caribbean-inflected spoken-word poetry of the 1990s, epitomized by poetry slams at the Nuyorican Poets Café in Manhattan, there was reggae. In the past thirty years, most Caribbean poetry written in English has come to the shores of the United States on waves of music, in the lyrics of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Burning Spear...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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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.
Product Description: "Abaniâs poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts to the heart of human strength, survival and tyranny."âPride Magazine"Reading Abaniâs poems is like being singed by a red hot iron."âHarold Pinter"Stunning poems ⦠Abani conveys the experience in words shaped into art and made unforgettable by their quietness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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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.
Product Description: 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. This remains true even though the poets' personal worlds range from the street to the university and from the tropics to Toronto, New York, and London...read more
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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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9781900715225 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, July 1, 1999, cover price $29.95
Product Description: 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. Clarice has used her gifts to raise herself from the urban Jamaican ghetto...read more
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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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9781900715140 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, December 1, 1997, cover price $17.95
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9781900715072 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, November 1, 1996, cover price $17.95
Product Description: Poor sower of seeds with a gift for dreaming, Jacko Jacobus knows that his destiny is to found a people to shake the nations. But when he has to flee Jamaica to escape his brother's wrath, he finds himself pushing crack for his Uncle Al in South Carolina...read more
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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.
Product Description: 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. In Resisting the Anomie, Dawes takes as his subject the anxiety of being far from home, the unease of not belonging, the sense of disconnection from culture and custom...read more
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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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