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The City of Bones stands beside the light found in Claudia Rankine's
Citizen. It is an urgent work of poetry that begets civic empathy, indictment, and clarity; one that stands in, but will travel well beyond, its own time. This is a major new book by a major poet."
–Rebecca Gayle Howell, author of Render: An Apocalypse "City of Bones is a poet's testament, his vision of time's past and future. Composed in a language that is highly intelligent, tightly wrought, and buoyant–the inherent lyric quality derives its swing from reggae, blues, jazz, gospel, and spoken-word traditions–it 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 Sen, author of EroText and editor of The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry