Product Description: A collection of imaginative and witty poems, this work displays astonishing energy; beauty of expression; and a range of reference to contemporary life, history, art, and literature. Including both meditative and narrative poems, this volume frequently focuses on extreme situations where compassion, love, and individual determination triumph against all odds...read more

Product Description: "[A] brave and moving tribute to a brother gone astray; with skill, unflinching honesty, and redemptive compassion, Cristina García tracks his marvelous, complex, and errant life. . . . These poems are the beautiful, painful, astonishing result of a journey to hell and back in search of the brother she loves...read more

Product Description: "Christianity or cuisine, cinema or sex manuals, Eros or Thanatos, Artaud or Marilyn Monroe? Marry or suture or eat all of them and you are close to Ravenous. A brutal tour de force."--Juan Felipe Herrera, author of Half of the World in Light"Durbin's debut volume sizzles...read more

Product Description: “A startling new voice in Canadian letters.” —Olive Senior, author of Shell"Ede has the warmth of William Carlos Williams and the analytical power of Malcolm X.”—George Elliott Clarke, author of George & RueAmatoritsero Ede was born in Nigeria and has won various awards for his poetry...read more

Product Description: In this dazzling debut by a singular new talent, the sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. Broke, beset by floods, and beatings by his alcoholic father, and with no job opportunities in sight, Elvis is tempted by a life of crime...read more

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Product Description: "Abani’s poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts to the heart of human strength, survival and tyranny."—Pride Magazine"Reading Abani’s poems is like being singed by a red hot iron."—Harold Pinter"Stunning poems … Abani conveys the experience in words shaped into art and made unforgettable by their quietness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)