City of Bones by Kwame Dawes Julian Turner café tables

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There’s an element of what could better be called habitual negligence that also has a bearing

Planes crash

poems so urgent they had to be scribbled on beer mats

Jara was arrested

City of Bones by Kwame Dawes Julian Turner café tablesCity of Bones is a poets testament, his vision of times past and future. Composed in a language that is highly intelligent, tightly wrought, and buoyantthe inherent lyric quality derives its swing from reggae, blues, jazz, gospel, and spoken word traditionsit is a road map tarred in civilizational wisdom. This is an astonishingly fine book. If I were to predict a future Nobel Prize winner in literature, it would more than likely be Kwame Dawes. Sudeep