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    Nebraska
    Poems

    Kwame Dawes (Author)

    9781496221230

    Paperback / softback, published 1 October 2019

    120 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1 cm, 0.176 kg

    "Dawes is no longer a stranger to the middle American landscape, now a welcome newcomer creating space for new voices to be heard."-Luke Hollis, Harvard Review Online
    "As the poet contemplates the wealth of opportunity that seems innate-now, as well as when the plains people first saw the land, concluding in Prairie that the wide-ranging opportunity must be home to imagination and continual new beginnings. This is where Nebraska meets the poet most intimately, as a place of riches and with a history of new beginnings."-Jordan Charlton, Adriot Journal

    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.

    Acknowledgments    

    I
    How I Became an Apostle    
    Advent    
    The Barking Geese of Edenton    
    The Immigrant Contemplates Death    
    Fledge        
    Longing for the Hall of the Deaf    
    The Midwestern Sky    
    First Winter    
    Loneliness    
    Dark Season    
    Plain-Speaking    
    Novela        
    The Scent of the Cankerworm    
    Dawn        
    Chadron    
    Sandoz Revisited    
    The Enemy of Memory    
    The Poor Man’
    s Sacrifice    
    Bones        
    Sponge    
    On History    
    II
    The Epoch of Lies    
    Sea and Rain    
    Purple        
    Forgetting    
    The Quality of Light    
    In These Times    
    Sugar        
    “
    All Teeth and Smile”
        
    Sniper        
    III
    Half        
    Long Distance    
    Prairie        
    Pleasure    
    The Chronicler of Sorrows    
    July Fourth    
    IV
    Jasmine    
    On Blindness    
    Insomniac    
    Bed Time    
    Transplant    
    Surviving, Again    
    Sancho Panza    
    The Messiness of Place    
    Bone Dust    
    Ambulation    
    Falling Away    
    On Picking Battles    
    The Exile Remembers His Sisters    
    Fatigue    
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