Gomer's Song is a re-rendering of the Bible story. In Gomer, a harlot
who was the wife of the Old Testament prophet Hosea, Kwame Dawes finds
the subject for a beautiful contemporary exploration on freedom and
sacrifice.
Kwame Dawes is an award-winning Ghanaian-born Jamaican author of
several books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction (including his debut
novel, She's Gone, published by Akashic Books in 2007). He teaches at
the University of South Carolina, where he is distinguished poet in
residence and director of the USC Arts Institute and the South Carolina
Poetry Initiative. Dawes is the programmer for the annual Jamaican
Calabash International Literary Festival.