Kwame Dawes
Jubilation!: Poems Celebrating 50 Years of Jamaican Independence (Peepal Tree Press, $19.95), edited by Kwame Dawes, features more than 50 contemporary Jamaican poets who reflect in outspoken, meditative, humorous, and outrageous ways upon the historical and existential moment of Jamaican independence. Dawes is a poet, an editor, and the author of 17 books, including Bob Marley and Red. He is the founder and director of the University of South Carolina Poetry Initiative and the programmer for the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica.
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