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.