City of Bones by Kwame Dawes Faber for the elegy and the

for the elegy and the urgency and the prophecy

including Langston Hughes

and his prolonged and painstaking exploration of the ‘intermittences of the heart’

fluidity of language

our experience of being human

City of Bones by Kwame Dawes Faber for the elegy and theCity 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