The first book ever to look in-depth at reggae as an artistic form, "Natural Mysticism" shows how reggae combines politics, sex, spirituality and art, and offers in depth analyzes of leading reggae artists such as Burning Spear, Lee Scratch Perry and Bob Marley.
The first book ever to look in-depth at reggae as an artistic form, "Natural Mysticism" shows how reggae combines politics, sex, spirituality and art,...
"Dawes's verse has an expressive power and lyric resonance that can be attributed to a trans-Atlantic consciousness weaned on the spiritual sources of reggae."--New York Times Book Review
"Raised in Jamaica, Dawes takes some of his cues, and this book's title, from reggae music. But his voice in these long and short poems and sequences selected from each of his many books, which began appearing in the mid-1990s, is crystal clear, accessible and serious, mixing a...
Sturge Town is a stunning collection of poems that connects with the roots of childhood to the reflections of a man turned witnessing his adult children occupying the space he once considered his own. Sturge Town is both an actual place, and a place of myth and a metaphor that parallels a journeying through time.
Sturge Town is a stunning collection of poems that connects with the roots of childhood to the reflections of a man turned witnessing his adult childr...
