Nebraska
eBook - ePub

Nebraska

Poems

  1. 132 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Nebraska

Poems

About this book

Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 he relocated to the United States and eventually found himself an American living in Lincoln, Nebraska. In Nebraska, this beautiful and evocative collection of poems, Dawes explores a theme constant in his work—the intersection of memory, home, and artistic invention. The poems, set against the backdrop of Nebraska's discrete cycle of seasons, are meditative even as they search for a sense of place in a new landscape. While he shovels snow or walks in the bitter cold to his car, he is engulfed with memories of Kingston, yet when he travels, he finds himself longing for the open space of the plains and the first snowfall. With a strong sense of place and haunting memories, Dawes grapples with life in Nebraska as a transplant.

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Information

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781496221230
eBook ISBN
9781496221445
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. PART I
  9. How I Became an Apostle
  10. Advent
  11. The Barking Geese of Edenton
  12. The Immigrant Contemplates Death
  13. Fledge
  14. Longing for the Hall of the Deaf
  15. The Midwestern Sky
  16. First Winter
  17. Loneliness
  18. Dark Season
  19. Plain-Speaking
  20. Novela
  21. The Scent of the Cankerworm
  22. Dawn
  23. Chadron
  24. Sandoz Revisited
  25. The Enemy of Memory
  26. The Poor Man’s Sacrifice
  27. Bones
  28. Sponge
  29. On History
  30. PART II
  31. The Epoch of Lies
  32. Sea and Rain
  33. Purple
  34. Forgetting
  35. The Quality of Light
  36. In These Times
  37. Sugar
  38. “All Teeth and Smile”
  39. Sniper
  40. Long Distance
  41. Prairie
  42. Pleasure
  43. The Chronicler of Sorrows
  44. July Fourth
  45. PART III
  46. On Blindness
  47. Insomniac
  48. Bed Time
  49. Transplant
  50. Surviving, Again
  51. Sancho Panza
  52. The Messiness of Place
  53. Ambulation
  54. Falling Away
  55. On Picking Battles
  56. The Exile Remembers His Sisters
  57. Before Winter
  58. About Kwame Dawes

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