Kwame Dawes’ Sturge Town was recently published by Norton. The book takes its title from a village in Jamaica—and uses it as an overriding metaphor for poems that travel from Ghana to the United States, stopping in one of the first free villages in post-emancipation Jamaica. Dawe’s poems sing with urgency—about crimes against black bodies, loss, addiction of a loved one, and the difficulties of religion. This is a book of mature wonderment and contemplation. All through these interior and exterior travels, Dawes poems are infused with light—wisdom, hope, and the actual sun.
https://poems.com/poem/light-home/
Congratulations, Kwame!
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