{"product_id":"sturge-town-poems","title":"Sturge Town: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe site of the ruined ancestral home of Kwame Dawes's family, in one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica, Sturge Town is at once a place of myth and, for Dawes, a metaphor of the journeying that has taken him from Ghana, through Jamaica, and to the United States. The poet ranges through time, pursued by a keen sense of mortality, and engages in an intimate dialogue with the reader--serious, confessional, alarmed, and sometimes teasing. Whether finding beauty in the quotidian or taking astonishing imaginative leaps, these poems speak movingly of self-reflection, family crises, loss, transcendence, the shattering realities of political engagement, and an unremitting investment in the vivid indeterminacy of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \"Recall\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh, pipe me back to my familiar earth, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e for it is slipping slowly from me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r","brand":"Kwame Dawes","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44474047725804,"sku":"9781324076315","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781324076315.jpg?v=1708982501","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/sturge-town-poems","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}