Duppy Conqueror by Kwame Dawes -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Note to the Reader Dedication Contents Editor’s Note Progeny of Air

Change Barnabas Collins Excursion to Port Royal Progeny of Air Akwaba

Resisting the Anomie

After “Acceptance” House Arrest Straitjacket and All Dreaming on My Music Box History Lesson at Eight a.m.

Prophets

Chapter X

Hermit

Chapter XVII

It Is the Cause (Belleview Ska)

Chapter XXVIII

Flight

Jacko Jacobus

A Way of Seeing Emigrant Trickster I Trickster II Trickster III Trickster IV Kingston Harbor

Requiem

Research Swamp Poem Requiem Language Shame Warrior Land Ho

Shook Foil

Caution Natural Silent Shook Foil Prayer for My Son Shadow Play Rita

Midland

Inheritance Holy Dub Satta: En Route to Columbia, S.C. Midland

A Letter from Greeleyville Blues on Route 15 with Krystal In Search of Alma Crow over Corn Row Roosting Decent Folk Epoch To the Third and Fourth Generations Somebody Trouble the Water

Bruised Totems

Bruised Totems Mask Gallery Art Sight Gourd

Brimming

Dreaming of Saint Augustine How to Pick a Hanging Tree Brimming Graves Carolina Gold

Wisteria

Wisteria Tornado Child Black Funk Dem Long Memory Fire Makers

Gomer’s Song

Hinterland What We Have Learned Sweet Old Women Water Carrier Long Time

Impossible Flying

Legend Estimated Prophet Impossible Flying Casting Out Demons Secrets Wasps Switch Mistaken

Hope’s Hospice

Coffee Break Live Up Making Ends Meet Yap Faith

The Seen Things The Unseen Things Evidence and Substance

Back of Mount Peace

Found The Habits of Love Steamed Fish Supper Evidence A Woman Wants Sea Seer Redux Esther’s Nightmares

The Accident The Drowning The First Body Esther’s Daughter Returns Prognosis

Wheels

The Glory Has Left the Temple Wise Man Patience Faithful Rasta African Postman Reach

New Poems

Steel Dirt Talk Transaction Apparition Playing Lymon Prophet Divination Revolution Man Traveling Man Penitentiary Piano and the Drunken Wake Playing Wining Boy Elevator Avery A Good Woman Blues Soldier Man Rupture Coreen Prophet Man The Actors’ Meeting Salesman Creed The Transaction Thieving Four Songs for Berniece If You Know Her Role Playing The Host of Holy Witnesses Avoiding the Spirits The Burden Death Fire Land To Tame the Savage Beast Mama Exorcism Old Man under a Pecan Tree The Lessons

Index of First Lines Index of Titles About the Author About the Editor Also by Kwame Dawes Links Acknowledgments Copyright Special Thanks

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