Bookshelf 2023: "Personal, conversational, and always interesting"

Nebraska-based veteran Jamaican poet Kwame Dawes, ranges over such themes as death, fatherhood, growing old, writing condolence notes, being a poet, the Blue Mountains, and Sturge Town (one of the first “free villages” established by recently emancipated Jamaicans, where his novelist/poet father, Neville Dawes, had his roots). [...] Personal, conversational, and always interesting.