City of Bones: A Testament - Brossura

Dawes, Kwame

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0810134624 ISBN 13: 9780810134621

Casa editrice: Triquarterly Books, 2017

Riassunto

As if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a re-visioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament constitute a restless jeremiad for our times, and Dawes’s inimitable voice peoples this collection with multitudes of souls urgently and forcefully singing, shouting, groaning, and dreaming about the African diasporic present and future.

As the twentieth collection in the poet’s hallmarked career, City of Bones reaches a pinnacle, adding another chapter to the grand narrative of invention and discovery cradled in the art of empathy that has defined his prodigious body of work. Dawes’s formal mastery is matched only by the precision of his insights into what is at stake in our lives today. These poems are shot through with music from the drum to reggae to the blues to jazz to gospel, proving that Dawes is the ambassador of words and worlds.

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L'autore

KWAME DAWES is the author of nineteen books of poetry as well as numerous collections of fiction, criticism, and essays, and the editor of more than a dozen anthologies. Dawes is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and teaches at the University of Nebraska and in the Pacific M.F.A. Writing Program. He is the founding director of the African Poetry Book Fund and the artistic director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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• Editore: Triquarterly Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0810134624
• ISBN 13: 9780810134621
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 218