Here are the voices of women who lived through most of the twentieth century - teachers, beauticians, seamstresses, domestic workers and farming folk - unfold with the raw honesty of people who have waited for a long time to finally speak their mind. The poems move with the narrative force of stories long repeated but told with fresh emotion each time, with the lyrical depth of a blues threnody or a negro spiritual, and with the flame and shock of a prophet forced to speak the hardest truths.
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Wisteria is Kwame Dawes s eleventh collection of verse since his first book, Progeny of Air, won the Forward Poetry Prize in 1994. Dawes is the Distingusihed Poet-in-Residence at the University of South Carolina, where he is director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative and The University of South Carolina Arts Institute. Dawes is Programming Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival.
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I have had the privilege of having Kwame Dawes as my academic advisor at the University of South Carolina. USC is now in the midst of the Spring Writers Festival, and Dr. Dawes read some selections from Wisteria at last night's session. To hear him read these poems, to hear him sing and tell the stories behind the poems, those who inspired this work, was a truly unforgettable experience. The poetry itself is breathtaking; attending his reading was an added bonus. Do yourself a favor and add Wisteria to your collection.
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Poetry of depth. Awesome!
T.J. Nanna, author of "Mind Untamed: Collected Poems" Mind Untamed: Collected Poems
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