Requiem: A Lament for the Dead [Paperback]

Kwame Senu Neville Dawes (Author)

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Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press (January 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1900715074
ISBN-13: 978-1900715072
Product Dimensions: 18.7 x 13.7 x 0.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 82 g

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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 a subject which, despite attempts at historical amnesia, will not go away. He does it by eschewing sentimentality, rant or playing to the audience, black or white. His poems go to the heart of the historical experience and its contemporary reverberations.

This sequence was inspired by the award-winning book, The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo by the American artist Tom Feelings.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Powerfully moving, spirit shaking!, July 21 1999

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Kwame Dawes takes us down, down into that vast darkness that history binds to our backs....You cannot read this work without tears of shame, cheers for courage, and a heart-wrenching shout of "never again!" My particular favorites are "Swamp Poem," "Cave,""Family Tree," "Hate," and "Shame." Dawes' language seduces, mesmerizes, intrigues, and shakes us up in this magnificent book!

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