Requiem

by Kwame Dawes

In these 'shrines of remembrance' for the millions of the victims of transatlantic slavery, Kwame Dawes constructs a sequence which laments, rages, mourns, but also celebrates survival. Focusing on individual moments in this holocaust which lasted nearly four hundred years, these poems both cauterize a lingering infection and offer the oil of healing. In these taut lyric pieces, Dawes achieves what might seem impossible: saying something fresh about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1900715074
• ISBN13: 9781900715072
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.4" x 7.4"