Progeny of Air
Progeny of Air is a poetry collection that moves through inheritance, diaspora, and breath. Its restrained voice lets image and repetition build emotional pressure.
Work Information
A compact poetry collection shaped by inheritance and diaspora.
Progeny of Air returns repeatedly to inheritance, diaspora, and breath, building a collection from exact images and low-key tension. The result is controlled on the surface but lingering in its aftereffects.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Pr Ltd
- Published
- 2003-07-01
- Language
- 英語
- ISBN-13
- 9781900715836
- ISBN-10
- 190071583X
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/Caribbean & Latin American
"Winner of the prize for the best first collection in the Forward Poetry Prize of 1994, Progeny of Air explores a childhood and youth spent in 1970s Jamaica. This collection, redesigned for the second edition, links inner personal experience and social and historical perspectives to mutually enriching effect. "
\ Kwame Dawes is a professor in the department of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He is the author of Natural Mysticism: Towards a Reggae Aesthetic and Talk Yuh Talk .