{"product_id":"9780821440926","title":"Midland","description":"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. \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMidland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMidland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMidland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107487858928,"sku":"9780821440926","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780821440926_p0.jpg?v=1763751362","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780821440926","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}