City of Bones by Kwame Dawes Julian Turner Westcott’s poems are alive to

Westcott’s poems are alive to the beautiful in the commonplace and offer up a precise honouring of the wild

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inheritance and race

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poems so urgent they had to be scribbled on beer mats

City of Bones by Kwame Dawes Julian Turner Westcott’s poems are alive toCity 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