So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival

by Kwame Dawes and Colin Channer

Imagine a night of a hundred poets reading their work to an audience of intensely engaged, responsive, and lively people--say three thousand of them. They are a loud bunch when it is time to make noise, but they are silent as congregants at prayer when the poets' language entrances them. Imagine the reading taking place under a tent pitched on a grassy lawn that overlooks the Caribbean Sea. Imagine that this is not the north coast of Jamaica, with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936070073
• ISBN13: 9781936070077
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"