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Perhaps the problem is the one that Lamming talks about — the force of the market to silence or push aside political thought in art.

Political Poetry : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

But I was still working it out, and when I looked closer to home, namely to my father and his friends George Lamming and John Hearne, I knew that I would find no useful models of faith and literature that I could embrace.

All Memory Is Fiction : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Did Lamming attempt new novels and found them wanting or found himself repeating himself?

I’m Okay, I’m Just Floundering : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

George Lamming, a West Indian novelist, observed something interesting to me yesterday on the phone.

Political Poetry : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

By then I had enough literary ambition to know that a conversation with George Lamming about my art was an important thing and his approval was quite valuable.

All Memory Is Fiction : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

George Lamming, a great West Indian novelist published his last novel in the early seventies.

I’m Okay, I’m Just Floundering : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

But I was still working it out, and when I looked closer to home, namely to my father and his friends George Lamming and John Hearne, I knew that I would find no useful models of faith and literature that I could embrace.

2007 June : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Did Lamming know, the moment he finished the last book, that he was done — that his labors in this area were over?

I’m Okay, I’m Just Floundering : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

When I spoke to George Lamming some years later, I was faced with the second temptation.

All Memory Is Fiction : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

This chapter is based primarily on the research of Toshihiro Nishiguchi and Richard Lamming.

The Machine That Changed the World James P. Womack 2007