Winner of the prize for the best first collection in the Forward Poetry Prize of 1994, Progeny of Air explores a childhood and youth spent in 1970's Jamaica. The collection links inner personal experience and social and historical perspectives to mutually enriching effect.
Kwame Dawes is a professor in the department of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He is the author of Natural Mysticism: Towards a Reggae Aesthetic and Talk Yuh Talk.
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Paperback: 114 pages
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd. (January 1, 1994)
5.0 out of 5 starsA journey within!, July 21, 1999
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Dawes takes his readers on a journey which becomes personal from page one to the end. Lyrical, seductive, mesmerizing we follow and find at the end--ourselves.
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