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Progeny of Air

Kwame Dawes

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
  • Publish Date: Jan 1st, 1994
  • Pages: 114
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.14in - 5.28in - 0.37in - 0.33lb
  • EAN: 9780948833687
  • Categories: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshCaribbean & Latin American

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.