The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many … - Kwame Dawes

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There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

Kwame Dawes

The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense of this collective memory of migration, suffering and transformation while living in South Carolina.

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I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

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Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.

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With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What makes this book as important as anything published in the last decade is the irresistible music, the formal dexterity and the imaginative leaps she makes with metaphor and language in these simply stunning poems. This is a very, very important achievement.

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This poet is a griot in search of a village.

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