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Kwame Dawes is a poet, actor, editor, critic, musician and professor of English at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He has written dozens of books.
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Resisting the Anomie (poems) (1995)
Progeny of Air (poems) (1995)
Prophets (poems) (1995)
Requiem (poems) (1996)
Jacko Jacobus (poems) (1997)
Shook Foil (poems) (1997)
Wheel and Come Again (poems) (1998)
Map - Maker (poems) (2000)
Midland (poems) (2000)
Selected Poems (poems) (2002)
A Place to Hide (2002)
Twenty (poems) (2005)
Wisteria (poems) (2006)
Impossible Flying (poems) (2006)
Fugue and Other Poems (poems) (2007)
Gomer's Song (poems) (2007)
Hope's Hospice and Other Poems (poems) (2009)
Back of Mount Peace (poems) (2010)
So Much Things to Say (poems) (2010) (with Colin Channer)
Wheels (poems) (2011)
A Bloom of Stones (poems) (2016)
Speak from Here to There (poems) (2016) (with John Kinsella)
City of Bones (poems) (2017)
New-Generation African Poets (poems) (2017) (with Chris Abani)
A New Beginning (poems) (2018)
Tangling With The Epic (poems) (2019) (with John Kinsella)
In The Name Of Our Families (poems) (2020) (with John Kinsella)
unHistory (poems) (2022) (with John Kinsella)
Tisa: New-Generation African Poets (poems) (2023) (with Chris Abani)
Kumi: New-Generation African Poets (poems) (2024) (with Chris Abani)
Progeny of Air (poems) (1995)
Prophets (poems) (1995)
Requiem (poems) (1996)
Jacko Jacobus (poems) (1997)
Shook Foil (poems) (1997)
Wheel and Come Again (poems) (1998)
Map - Maker (poems) (2000)
Midland (poems) (2000)
Selected Poems (poems) (2002)
A Place to Hide (2002)
Twenty (poems) (2005)
Wisteria (poems) (2006)
Impossible Flying (poems) (2006)
Fugue and Other Poems (poems) (2007)
Gomer's Song (poems) (2007)
Hope's Hospice and Other Poems (poems) (2009)
Back of Mount Peace (poems) (2010)
So Much Things to Say (poems) (2010) (with Colin Channer)
Wheels (poems) (2011)
A Bloom of Stones (poems) (2016)
Speak from Here to There (poems) (2016) (with John Kinsella)
City of Bones (poems) (2017)
New-Generation African Poets (poems) (2017) (with Chris Abani)
A New Beginning (poems) (2018)
Tangling With The Epic (poems) (2019) (with John Kinsella)
In The Name Of Our Families (poems) (2020) (with John Kinsella)
unHistory (poems) (2022) (with John Kinsella)
Tisa: New-Generation African Poets (poems) (2023) (with Chris Abani)
Kumi: New-Generation African Poets (poems) (2024) (with Chris Abani)
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Kwame Dawes recommends
A Kind of Madness (2024)
Uche Okonkwo
"Uche Okonkwo's stories, set in contemporary Nigeria, have a gentle allure, drawing us into the intimate lives of characters and their worlds with elegant, assured prose and a deep understanding of the complex machinations of human manners and sentiment. A striking debut!"
Redwood Court (2024)
DeLana R A Dameron
"Redwood Court is a beautiful and riveting novel of generational reckoning. DeLana Dameron offers with tenderness and a lyrical sensitivity, an insider's insight into the 'big love' of the abundantly rich black southern life of tribe, community, and family."
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez (2023)
Claire Jiménez
"The universe of Claire Jimenez's brilliant debut novel, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez, sparkles with several generations of Puerto Rican women navigating issues of race, colonialism, gender and faith in a world cut through displacement and the quotidian challenges of day-to-day living. These memorably imagined women are imbued with a rich sense of cultural complexity, and Jimenez manages to capture a world-view rich with faith and magic, lending her work a deeply human force that is most compelling. Jimenez's comic sense and timing are achieved with incredible skill and sensitivity."
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