Sturge Town: Poems
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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...






















