New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano)

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Supported by the African Poetry Book Fund, Prairie Schooner, and the Library of Congress, the previous volumes have been critically acclaimed, receiving glowing reviews in the New York Times, Poetry Society of America, Kenyon Review, the Washington Post, Shelf Awareness Both editors are award-winning, well-respected poets, novelists, etc. Dawes teaches at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Abani teaches at Northwestern University As with previous volumes, the box set will be featured prominently at AWP 2018 Limited to 1,000-copy print run

Kwame Dawes is the Ghanian-born, award-winning author of eighteen collections of poetry. He has won Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Emmy, and was the 2013 awardee of the Paul Engel Prize. He currently teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Chris Abani, a Nigerian-born, award-winning poet and novelist, currently teaches at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is the recipient of a PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, a Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond Margins Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award, and a Guggenheim Award.

Additional Praise for the Previous New-Generation African Poets Box Sets: "There is quite certainly nothing to doubt about the quality of poems collected here...Each poem has an edge that cuts deeply, and every surface of the set is adorned with Victor Ehikhamenor's vibrant artwork...Eight poets hailing from Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia, each lauded in introductions by Dawes, co-editor Chris Abani and a cohort of other poets, make New-Generation African Poets: Tatu a collection pulsing with fresh talent in a series that poetry lovers worldwide should be grateful for." --Shelf Awareness "An amazing assemblage in this set of ten chapbooks. The entirety of it--the books and the language, the art and the binding--is a thing of beauty, and reading it is an experience not to be missed." --New York Journal of Books "This limited-edition box set of ten African poets is gorgeous. Not only does it introduce readers to the best poetry by contemporary poets of the African and the African diaspora, it showcases the art of Eritrean painter Ficre Ghebreyesus...As Abani says in his preface, no body has been more commoditized and dehumanized than the black body, the African body. The collection provides space for these reclamations. The poets write about religion, political issues, memory and forgetting, immigrant experiences and relationships. Some poems are quiet and reflective, some lively and sharp, all using sound and metaphor in unexpected ways." --Newcity