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Sturge Town: Poems

By Kwame Dawes
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By Kwame Dawes

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Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry


In this stunning volume, acclaimed poet Kwame Dawes explores the mythic, ancestral, and spiritual journeys that make up a life.

The site of the ruined ancestral home of Kwame Dawes’s family, in one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica, Sturge Town is at once a place of myth and, for Dawes, a metaphor of the journeying that has taken him from Ghana, through Jamaica, and to the United States. The poet ranges...

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PoetryGeneral & Miscellaneous PoetryPoetry of PlacesLatin American & Caribbean Poetry