{"product_id":"midland-poems-9780821413562","title":"Midland: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice. \u003ci\u003eMidland\u003c\/i\u003e, the seventh collection by Kwame Dawes, draws deeply on the poet's travels and experiences in Africa, the Caribbean, England, and the American South. Marked equally by a lushness of imagery, an urgency of tone, and a muscular rhythm, \u003ci\u003eMidland\u003c\/i\u003e, in the words of the final judge, Eavan Boland, is \"a powerful testament of the complexity, pain, and enrichment of inheritance...It is a compelling meditation on what is given and taken away in the acts of generation and influence. Of a father's example and his oppression. There are different places throughout the book. They come willfully in and out of the poems: Jamaica. London. Africa. America. But all the places become one place in the central theme and undersong here: which is displacement...The achievement of this book is a beautifully crafted voice which follows the painful and vivid theme of homelessness in and out of the mysteries of loss and belonging.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMidland\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of a keen and transcendent intellect, a collection of poems that speaks to the landscape from inside, from an emotional and experiential place of risk and commitment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKwame Dawes\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Ghana, grew up in Jamaica, and studied and taught in New Brunswick, Canada. He has published five volumes of poetry, an anthology of reggae poetry, and a critical volume on reggae music and literature. His first book of poems, \u003ci\u003eProgeny of Air\u003c\/i\u003e, won the prestigous Forward Poetry Prize. He teaches at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872887705874,"sku":"9780821413562","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6f1cfe49-cf20-4188-8b81-34a2ed596d26.jpg?v=1737914466","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/midland-poems-9780821413562","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}