In The Name Of Our Families by Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella Faber romantic love

romantic love

like all Aboriginal culture

over in an instant so that 'Nothing was left but the possible

unforgettable

each etched carefully with the different

In The Name Of Our Families by Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella Faber romantic loveIn 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