Dawnsong!: The Epic Memory of Askia Toure

By Askia M. Toure

The poems in this collection address the cultural and spiritual needs of Black people. In Dawnsong Toure successfully develops a heroic poetry that creates its own artistic matrix. In these poems... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088378209X
• ISBN13: 9780883782095
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Third World Press
• Length: 105 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Askia shines again

Amazing. Askia is eloquent and well versed in matters relating to Africans throughout the diaspora. His life's breath comes through his poetry and leaves readers captivated. His words provoke thought and emotion. A true gem!

Some important reviews of this work

"Toure must be seen as the one poet and activist... who has developed his craft to the deepest reflection of the ground-breaking research with which Afrocentric scholars are focusing on ancient Africa." -- Patricia Hill, Gen. Editor, Call and Response"Askia M. Touré ... has continued to combine his passion for poetry and his zeal for a politics of Black sociocultural empowerment in the tradition of Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks and in a way that few 'community poets' (griots) have been able to realize as successfully." -- James W. Richardson, Jr., The Oxford Companion to African American Litterature"Poets like Larry Neal and Askia Touré were, in my mind, new masters of the new black poetry... Askia had the song-like cast to his words, as if the poetry was actually meant to be sung." -- Amiri Baraka, poet, dramatist