In The Name Of Our Families by Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella Faber Each anthology in the Staying

Each anthology in the Staying Alive trilogy has 500 poems to touch the heart

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In The Name Of Our Families by Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella Faber Each anthology in the StayingIn their fourth round of dialogue, Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella set themselves the intertwined tasks of exploring the long poetic line and making interventions upon what has always been implicit in their conversations, the meaning of family. The long breathed line becomes metonym and metaphor for a subject that is evasive, problematic, distressing, comforting, joyous and challenging. Poems acknowledge the life giving support of the domestic, but also