Progeny of Air

by Kwame Dawes

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780948833687
Publisher:	Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Publication date:	01/01/1994
Series:	Poems Series
Pages:	114
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

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.