Hope's Hospice: And Other Poems

by Kwame Dawes

Frank and earnest, this moving collection of poetry offers a glimpse into the support centers and hospice outside of Montego Bay and 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845230787
• ISBN13: 9781845230784
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.9"