Gomer's Song

Gomer's Song is a daring recasting of the story of Gomer, "adulterous" wife of Hosea, a minor Old Testament prophet, in a contemporary setting. The poems are a moving exploration of sexuality, social stigma, transgression, faith, and the complications of gender offered through the voice of Gomer.

These poems straddle multiple landscapes, but are all reflect Dawes' powerful poetic gifts for sound and rhythm. Gomer's Song was recently noted in Poet's and Writers in the "First Lines" section.  

Other poetry tiles:
Impossible Flying
Brimming
Wisteria: Poems From the Swamp Country
Bruised Totem
New and Selected Poems
Midland
Map Maker
Shock Foil
Jacko Jacobus
Requiem
Progeny of Air
Resisting the Anomie

I Saw Your Face

With an intimate, philosophical sense of history, often exploring connections between the Black American experience and African culture. Nearly a decade has passed since the publication of his monumental, illuminating, and moving work, The Middle Passage , winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. Now, I saw Your Face marks a return to the reflective mood of his earlier books: It is an uplifting celebration of the shared survival and strong connections between people of African descent.

This extraordinary selection of drawings that Mr. Feelings sketched over the course of his career-protraits of young people from around the world-are placed in the vivid setting of Kwame Dawes's lyrical text. Initially inspired by a conversation, the two friends were intrigued by the idea of a book that would explore the history of the African Diaspora as seen simply through faces, and they had been completing the project before Mr. Feelings passed away.

A powerful collaboration from the immensely talented Tom Feelings and the award-winning poet Kwame Dawes, the result is a lovely, moving meditation on how, as wide and far as African peoples have traveled, they remain linked by their common roots.

She's Gone

She's Gone delves into the psychology of desire and need as it contends with issues of culture and class. If it is a love story, it is one marked by the harsh realities of human existence that we see if the most revealing of Bob Marley's love songs, or the cool sensual intelligence of the best of Milan Kundera. Dawes is a poet but he never let's his poetry detract from the sheer pleasure of storytelling.

"A masterly tour de force, the language here is elegant, seductive, and tender, the irony is sharp, the humor subverts, and hope shines through. Kwame Dawes is always reinventing the Caribbean narrative, fusing myth, legend, reggae, and his own sense of style to create a powerful and tremendous art. He never ceases to amaze."
--Chris Abani, author of Becoming Abigail and GraceLand

"This striking debut novel is from the heart and about the heart. The characters are true, the landscapes exquisite, and the relationships dynamic, insightful, and complex. Read it and be transported."
--Bernardine Evaristo, author of The Emperor's Babe

"She's Gone is the kind of debut novel that stuns its readers into silence. Set in the American South, New York City, and the Caribbean, this probing novel takes us on a risky expedition to the swampy bottom of the human psyche, a murky world where dreams of love, escape, and artistic freedom swim dangerously close to heartbreak, alienation, and madness . . . She's Gone is a work of incandescent genius."
--Colin Channer, best-selling author of Waiting in Vain and Passing Through

Other fiction title:
A Place To Hide

Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius

A captivating and suitably in-depth analysis of Bob's poetry, Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius acknowledges his words' fierce intellectualness alongside their spirit and spirituality, thus at last allowing them to be afforded the same academic-type respect more usually confined to the likes of Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Lou Reed.' Lloyd Bradley (author, Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King)

Creator, inspirer and motivator, Bob Marley is undoubtedly one of the most influential and political performers of the 20th century. His influence can be heard in the songs of artists as diverse as Carly Simon, Wyclef Jean and international remixer Funkstar Deluxe.

Other non-fiction titles:
Natural Mysticism
Talk Yuh Talk
A Far Cry From Plymouth Rock: A Personal Narrative