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Midland

Winner of the 1999 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize.

Praise:
"Midland is a powerful testament of the complexity, pain, and enrichment of inheritance...It is a compelling meditation on what is given and taken away in the acts of generation and influence. Of a father’s example and his oppression that comes willfully in and out of the poems: Jamaica. London. Africa. America. But all the places become one place in the central theme and undersong here: which is displacement...The achievement of this book is a beautifully crafted voice which follows the painful and vivid theme of homelessness in and out of the mysteries of loss and belonging."

--Eavan Boland

  • No Widgets

    "Primary" needs some widgets.

  • No Widgets

    "Secondary" needs some widgets.

  • Goose LAde Editions (Canada):2001


    • African Poetry Book Fund
    • Calabash International Literary Festival
    • Prairie Schooner
    • Respect Due
    all memory is fiction