Hope's Hospice: And Other Poems

By Kwame Dawes

Book Overview

This moving and frank collection of poetry provides a glimpse into the support centers and the hospice outside Montego Bay and offers a memorial to the many lives that have been lost to HIV/AIDS in Jamaica. Culled from open dialogue with sufferers and those who care for them, and coupled with evocative photographs, AIDS becomes a channel for universal dramas, archetypal voices, stoicism, despair, and deeply human deceptions. Full of memories of a time when diagnosis was equivalent to a death sentence, each piece brings the lives of the victims to the forefront and battles the notion that this can only happen to others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845230787
• ISBN13: 9781845230784
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.9"