Nebraska: Poems by Kwame Dawes

Nebraska: Poems

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Nebraska: Poems by Kwame Dawes

University of Nebraska Press

Nebraska: Poems

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Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 he relocated to the United States and eventually found himself an American living in Lincoln, Nebraska.

In Nebraska, this beautiful and evocative collection of poems, Dawes explores a theme constant in his work--the intersection of memory, home, and artistic invention. The poems, set against the backdrop of Nebraska's discrete cycle of seasons, are meditative even as they search for a sense of place in a new landscape. While he shovels snow or walks in the bitter cold to his car, he is engulfed with memories of Kingston, yet when he travels, he finds himself longing for the open space of the plains and the first snowfall.

With a strong sense of place and haunting memories, Dawes grapples with life in Nebraska as a transplant.

Book Details
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:
9781496221230
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
120
Authors:
Kwame Dawes
Published Date:
2019-10-01
Language:
English
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About Kwame Dawes

Born in Ghana and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, Kwame Dawes is the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and a Chancellor's Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received a BA from the University of the West Indies at Mona and a PhD from the University of New Brunswick. His many collections include Wisteria: Twilight Songs from the Swamp Country (Red Hen Press, 2006) and Sturge Town (W.W. Norton, 2024). He wrote the study Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius (2002) and founded the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and the Musgrave Silver Medal from the Institute of Jamaica.

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