The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry
Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already
established himself as an important international poetic voice.
"Midland," the seventh collection by Kwame Dawes, draws deeply on
the poet's travels and experiences in Africa, the Caribbean,
England, and the American South. Marked equally by a lushness of
imagery, an urgency of tone, and a muscular rhythm, "Midland," in
the words of the final judge, Eavan Boland, 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. There are different places throughout the book.
They come 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."
"Midland" is the work of a keen and transcendent intellect, a
collection of poems that speaks to the landscape from inside, from
an emotional and experiential place of risk and commitment.
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