Kwame Dawes Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“This poet is a griot in search of a village.”
-- Kwame Dawes -
“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.”
-- Kwame Dawes
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