Paterson Award for Literary Excellence.Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award, finalist.Dawess verse has an expressive power and lyric resonance that can be attributed to a transAtlantic consciousness weaned on the spiritual sources of reggae.New York Times Book ReviewRaised in Jamaica, Dawes takes some of his cues, and this books title, from reggae music. But his voice in these long and short poems and sequences selected from each of his many books, which began appearing in the mid1990s, is crystal clear, accessible and serious, mixing a timeless mythmaking energy with a strong contemporary conscience National Public RadioThis first U.S. selection from the Jamaicabred, Nebraskabased poet (he also has a reputation in Britain) is his 16th book of verse in just 20 years it reveals a writer syncretic, effusive, affectionate, alert to familial joys, but also sensitive to history, above all to the struggles of African diasporic historythe Middle Passage, sharecropperera South Carolina, the Kingston of Bob Marley, whose song gives this big book its title. Dawes is at home with cityscape and seascape, patois and transatlantic tradition. Publishers Weekly"[Dawes] is highly original and intelligent, possessing poetic sensibility that is rooted and sound, unshakeable and unstopped, both in its vibrancy and direction. He writes poetry as it ought to be written."World Literature Today"Dawes asserts himself as man and artist and finally, with grace achieved and grace said, sits down to begin...

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