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Sturge Town: Poems

By Kwame Dawes
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By Kwame Dawes
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Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry


“A richly intelligent, deeply descriptive exploration of home and identity.” —Fiona Sampson, Guardian


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 jou...

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PoetryGeneral & Miscellaneous PoetryPoetry of PlacesLatin American & Caribbean Poetry