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245 10 a| Sturge Town :b| poems /c| Kwame Dawes.;

250 a| First American edition.;

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500 a| "First published in Great Britain in 2023 by Peepal Tree Press Ltd."--Title page verso.;

520 a| 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.;

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Sturge Town : poems / Kwame Dawes.

Author/creator	Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville, 1962- author.
Format	Book
Edition	First American edition.
Publication	New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, 2024.
Copyright Date	©2023
Description	149 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects	Spirituality--Poetry. Families--Poetry. Loss (Psychology)--Poetry. Transcendence (Philosophy)--Poetry. Caribbean poetry (English)--21st century. Spirituality. Loss (Psychology) Transcendence (Philosophy) Spiritualité. Familles. Perte (Psychologie) Transcendance (Philosophie) Poésie antillaise (anglaise)--21e siècle. Spiritualité--Poésie. Familles--Poésie. Perte (Psychologie)--Poésie. Transcendance (Philosophie)--Poésie. Jamaica--Poetry. Jamaica. Jamaïque. Jamaïque--Poésie.

Abstract	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.
General note	"First published in Great Britain in 2023 by Peepal Tree Press Ltd."--Title page verso.
Genre/form	poetry.
Genre/form	Poetry.
Genre/form	Autobiographical poetry.
Genre/form	Myths.
Genre/form	Mythes.
Genre/form	Poésie autobiographique.
Genre/form	Poésie.
ISBN	9781324076315 hardcover
ISBN	1324076313 hardcover

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