{"product_id":"nebraska-9781496221230","title":"Nebraska","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 he relocated to the United States and eventually found himself an American living in Lincoln, Nebraska.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eNebraska\u003c\/i\u003e, this beautiful and evocative collection of poems, Dawes explores a theme constant in his workthe intersection of memory, home, and artistic invention. The poems, set against the backdrop of Nebraska's discrete cycle of seasons, are meditative even as they search for a sense of place in a new landscape. While he shovels snow or walks in the bitter cold to his car, he is engulfed with memories of Kingston, yet when he travels, he finds himself longing for the open space of the plains and the first snowfall. With a strong sense of place and haunting memories, Dawes grapples with life in Nebraska as a transplant.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nebraska-Poems\/dp\/B08174QS4T\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=nebraska\u0026lt;br\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dawes is no longer a stranger to the middle American landscape, now a welcome newcomer creating space for new voices to be heard.\"—Luke Hollis, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review Online\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As the poet contemplates the wealth of opportunity that seems innate—now, as well as when the plains people first saw the land, concluding in \u003ci\u003ePrairie\u003c\/i\u003e that the wide-ranging opportunity must be home to imagination and continual new beginnings. This is where Nebraska meets the poet most intimately, as a place of riches and with a history of new beginnings.\"—Jordan Charlton, \u003ci\u003eAdriot Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I\u003cbr\u003e How I Became an Apostle    \u003cbr\u003e Advent    \u003cbr\u003e The Barking Geese of Edenton    \u003cbr\u003e The Immigrant Contemplates Death    \u003cbr\u003e Fledge        \u003cbr\u003e Longing for the Hall of the Deaf    \u003cbr\u003e The Midwestern Sky    \u003cbr\u003e First Winter    \u003cbr\u003e Loneliness    \u003cbr\u003e Dark Season    \u003cbr\u003e Plain-Speaking    \u003cbr\u003e Novela        \u003cbr\u003e The Scent of the Cankerworm    \u003cbr\u003e Dawn        \u003cbr\u003e Chadron    \u003cbr\u003e Sandoz Revisited    \u003cbr\u003e The Enemy of Memory    \u003cbr\u003e The Poor Man’s Sacrifice    \u003cbr\u003e Bones        \u003cbr\u003e Sponge    \u003cbr\u003e On History    \u003cbr\u003e II\u003cbr\u003e The Epoch of Lies    \u003cbr\u003e Sea and Rain    \u003cbr\u003e Purple        \u003cbr\u003e Forgetting    \u003cbr\u003e The Quality of Light    \u003cbr\u003e In These Times    \u003cbr\u003e Sugar        \u003cbr\u003e “All Teeth and Smile”    \u003cbr\u003e Sniper        \u003cbr\u003e III\u003cbr\u003e Half        \u003cbr\u003e Long Distance    \u003cbr\u003e Prairie        \u003cbr\u003e Pleasure    \u003cbr\u003e The Chronicler of Sorrows    \u003cbr\u003e July Fourth    \u003cbr\u003e IV\u003cbr\u003e Jasmine    \u003cbr\u003e On Blindness    \u003cbr\u003e Insomniac    \u003cbr\u003e Bed Time    \u003cbr\u003e Transplant    \u003cbr\u003e Surviving, Again    \u003cbr\u003e Sancho Panza    \u003cbr\u003e The Messiness of Place    \u003cbr\u003e Bone Dust    \u003cbr\u003e Ambulation    \u003cbr\u003e Falling Away    \u003cbr\u003e On Picking Battles    \u003cbr\u003e The Exile Remembers His Sisters    \u003cbr\u003e Fatigue    \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409231094103,"sku":"9781496221230","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496221230.jpg?v=1730506061","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nebraska-9781496221230","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}