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Kwame Dawes
“The Prodigal Converses with the Land,” a Poem by Kwame Dawes
From the Collection “Sturge Town”
By
Kwame Dawes
| August 21, 2024
Kwame Dawes on
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dawes, the great poet and critic, reflects on the legacy of the rhetorician and abolitionist Douglass, in the introduction to a new edition of his monumental autobiography
By
Kwame Dawes
| February 6, 2023
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