Sturge Town: Poems

by Kwame Dawes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324076313
• ISBN13: 9781324076315
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.4"