Bültmann & Gerriets
Bivouac
von Kwame Dawes
Verlag: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Taschenbuch
ISBN: 978-1-61775-710-5
Erschienen am 02.04.2019
Sprache: Englisch
Format: 208 mm [H] x 131 mm [B] x 22 mm [T]
Gewicht: 247 Gramm
Umfang: 248 Seiten

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Kwame Dawes's debut novel She's Gone (Akashic) was the winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Debut Fiction). He is the author of twenty-one books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. In 2016, his book Speak from Here to There, a cowritten collection of verse with Australian poet John Kinsella, was released along with When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life, which Dawes edited. His most recent collection, City of Bones: A Testament, was published in 2017. His awards include the Forward Poetry Prize, the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, the Musgrave Silver Medal, several Pushcart Prizes, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and an Emmy Award. He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and is Chancellor Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. Dawes serves as the associate poetry editor for Peepal Tree Press and is director of the African Poetry Book Fund. He is series editor of the African Poetry Book Series-the latest of which is New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita)-and artistic director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. Dawes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2018 was elected as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.



The death of a Jamaican man's father raises questions about the father's political endeavors, and about the plight of 1980s Jamaica.