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Kwame Dawes

Forfatter af She's Gone

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Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana, grew up in Jamaica, and studied and taught in New Brunswick, Canada. In the UK 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, Progeny of Air, won the prestigious vis mere Forward Poetry Prize. He teaches at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

Includes the name: Kwame Senu Neville Dawes

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Værker af Kwame Dawes

She's Gone (2007) 46 eksemplarer
The Mountain and the Sea (2020) 40 eksemplarer
Bivouac: A novel (2010) 32 eksemplarer
Seven New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook boxed set (2014) — Redaktør — 24 eksemplarer
Wisteria (2006) 21 eksemplarer
Nebraska: Poems (2019) 19 eksemplarer
Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (2015) — Redaktør — 19 eksemplarer
Bob Marley (2002) 18 eksemplarer
Midland: Poems (2001) 15 eksemplarer
Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry (1998) — Redaktør — 15 eksemplarer
Gomer's Song (Black Goat) (2007) 14 eksemplarer
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tatu) (2016) — Redaktør — 12 eksemplarer
Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden (2017) — Redaktør; Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne) (2017) — Redaktør — 8 eksemplarer
Progeny of Air (1994) 8 eksemplarer
Impossible Flying (2006) 8 eksemplarer
Sturge Town: Poems (2023) 8 eksemplarer
A Place to Hide (2002) 7 eksemplarer
Jacko Jacobus (1996) 6 eksemplarer
New-generation African poets. a chapbook box set / Sita (2019) — Redaktør — 6 eksemplarer
Shook Foil (1997) 6 eksemplarer
Back of Mount Peace (2010) 6 eksemplarer
Selected Poems (2003) 5 eksemplarer
Requiem : a lament for the dead (1996) 5 eksemplarer
Resisting the Anomie (1995) 5 eksemplarer
Wheels (2011) 4 eksemplarer
New-Generation African Poets: A chapbook box set (Nane) (2021) — Redaktør — 4 eksemplarer
Prairie Schooner 3 eksemplarer
New-generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Saba (2020) — Redaktør — 2 eksemplarer
Speak from Here to There (2016) 2 eksemplarer
Bruised Totems (2004) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Granta 92: The View from Africa (2006) — Bidragyder — 175 eksemplarer
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Bidragyder — 169 eksemplarer
The 100 Best African American Poems (2010) — Bidragyder — 96 eksemplarer
The Best American Poetry 2013 (2013) — Bidragyder — 81 eksemplarer
The Best American Poetry 2014 (2014) — Bidragyder — 78 eksemplarer
Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (2016) — Bidragyder — 55 eksemplarer
The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Bidragyder — 48 eksemplarer
The Best American Poetry 2021 (2021) — Bidragyder — 46 eksemplarer
Kingston Noir (2012) — Bidragyder — 34 eksemplarer
Accra Noir (2020) — Bidragyder — 31 eksemplarer
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Bidragyder — 21 eksemplarer
Fuchsia (2016) — Forord — 19 eksemplarer
The Best American Poetry 2023 (The Best American Poetry series) (2023) — Bidragyder — 19 eksemplarer
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (2019) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
Out of Bounds: British, Black, and Asian Poets (2012) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Poetry Magazine Vol. 207 No. 6, March 2016 (2016) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
Mummy Eaters (African Poetry Book) (2022) — Forord — 4 eksemplarer
Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky (2016) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer

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Our main character, escaping Kingston to her island home before a hurricane hits, she comes upon a confused naked man by the road. Previously a nursing home nurse, she trusts her instincts that he needs help so she takes the amnesiac to her island to ride out the storm, naming her mystery man Monty. Long widowed, she falls in love while also imagining worst case scenarios. A unique story, & yes we find out who he is.
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KarenMonsen | 4 andre anmeldelser | Aug 5, 2023 |
My first mistake was going into this audiobook blindly. I chose this selection because it was free and short, but I would have passed it had I taken the time to read the synopsis or other reviews. With that said, here is my review on the book:

A hurricane is coming to Jamaica and a strong, well-to-do, middle-aged single woman has told her daughter she is off to make sure her private island and belongings are safe, but on the way she sees a beautiful man (of course), standing naked (of course) in the road. He claims he remembers nothing, so she does what any sane person would do and brings him to her house where she has no way of contacting anyone from the outside world. It's okay though because the man is good looking and in such a VULNERABLE state that she's delightedly turned on by the idea that she feels like she now "owns" him. Weird, but OK.

They hang out for a few days and he makes a great house guest, but she spends a fair amount of her time creeping on him. It's okay though because remember, he's like, really, really hot, so it's not weird that she watches him sleep.

Eventually they decide he needs to remember where he came from and he plans to leave, but not before coming into her room at 4am and just immediately sticking his dick inside her. That's how sex normally works, right? Someone comes from another room in the middle of the night and you just... get to going? Foreplay is overrated anyway. The main character keeps yelling at the strange man to LOOK AT HER while he has sex with her because at this point, she's finally feeling a little insecure about the whole situation. The next morning he leaves and she returns to her life of distrusting men and avoiding her daughter. A few months later, she receives a letter from the man, complete with a photo of him and the wife he cheated on, as well as his children.

The story was both boring and tasteless. Not smutty enough to be smut, and way too smutty for someone who doesn't want to constantly listen to this woman talk about sex in the least sexy way possible. When it ended, I googled the author to see what a woman with this kind of weird exploiter fantasy looked like, and was surprised to see the author is, in fact, a 60-year old man. Oof.
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thezenofbrutality | 4 andre anmeldelser | Jul 5, 2023 |
Spring 202o (May);

One of the Audible Originals from May's ten released for free. I really loved this story. It's all about reclaiming yourself, whether you remember who that self is or don't. I loved how steeped in its culture it was. I even, truly, found myself touched by the most unexpected of endings, both realistic and romantic all at once.
 
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wanderlustlover | 4 andre anmeldelser | Dec 27, 2022 |
Interesting, yet not very memorable
 
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booklovers2 | 4 andre anmeldelser | Nov 28, 2020 |

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