Sturge Town Hugh Purcell

Sturge Town Hugh PurcellSturge Town is a stunning collection of poems that connects with the earliest days of Kwame Dawes work as a poet, from the roots of childhood in Ghana to the reflections of a man turned sixty who is witnessing his children occupying the space he once considered his own. It ranges from poems that make something special of the everyday, to poems of the most astonishing imaginative leaps. There are poems that speak most movingly of moments of acute self

close personal relationships are essential and redemptive

Brown and Farrar

complete with contextualizing essays

The empathy of the reader cannot be understated

While rooted in Pro-Black theory

The Irish Emigrant

Inside the Night by Ibrahim Nasrallah and Naguib Mahfouz by Rasheed el-Enany

and friendship

Howard Wright

Pedro Serrano

and his first since the publication of Othello in the Pyramid of Dreams in 1996

unbeknown to all