In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing - an object to be understood and shaped into my own sense of self, the same is true of the play, the novel, the short story. Yet, for some reason, I approach these existing genres with the kind of confidence that the reggae artist approaches any song floating around out there.
As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked, these two statements defy the e… - Kwame Dawes
As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked, these two statements defy the e…
- Kwame Dawes
I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be at once at home and away from home at the sa… - Kwame Dawes
I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be at once at home and away from home at the sa…
The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense of this collective … - Kwame Dawes
The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense of this collective …
I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from. - Kwame Dawes
I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.
This poet is a griot in search of a village. - Kwame Dawes
This poet is a griot in search of a village.
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. W… - Kwame Dawes
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. W…
I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal. - Kwame Dawes
I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.
All memory is fiction. - Kwame Dawes
All memory is fiction.
Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art… - Kwame Dawes
Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art…
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