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Bearden's Odyssey
Borrowing from Romare Bearden’s aesthetic palette and inspired by his Odysseus series, Bearden’s Odyssey gathers, for the first time, poems from thirty-five of the most revered …
Duppy Conqueror
Paterson Award for Literary Excellence.Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award, finalist. "Dawes's verse has an expressive power and lyric resonance that can be attributed to a …
The Children of Sisyphus
The Children of Sisyphus is the story of Dinah, a prostitute who lives and fails to find love on the Dungle, the rubbish heap where the very poorest squat. Trapped by patriarchy …
Origins of the Syma Species
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu’s collection is a brief history of where he …
Leaked Footages
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets The poems in Leaked Footages carry urgent subjects, ranging from death to disappearance to grief to memory. Not only do …
What Saves Us
This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—about much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and …
Saba: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
"Akashic Books' chapbooks boxset of African poetry has delighted lovers of poetry for 6 years. The latest collection features 11 new voices. Get ready to be inspired and edified …
Sturge Town: Poems
The site of the ruined ancestral home of Kwame Dawes's family, in one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica, Sturge Town is at once a place of myth and, for Dawes, …