New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tatu) by Kwame Dawes

New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tatu) by Kwame Dawes

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 with the power of poetic expression.
--Brittle Paper, One of 50 Notable African Books of 2020

Praise for the chapbook series:

Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short collections by contemporary poets from Africa, packaged together in beautiful boxed sets.
--New York Times Magazine

An ambitious, vital project that delivers exactly what it promises...As a group, the chapbooks dispel stereotypes about African writing. They also illustrate what editors Dawes and Abani note about the many ways poets can understand or redefine their ties to Africa. These insights are poignant and valuable, especially at a time when millions around the globe find themselves somewhere between new countries and ancestral lands they've left behind.
--Washington Post

A collection pulsing with fresh talent in a series that poetry lovers worldwide should be grateful for.
--Shelf Awareness

The limited-edition box set is a project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks every year by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today, and it is especially interested in featuring poets who have not yet published their first full-length book of poetry.

The eleven poets included in this box set are: Michelle Angwenyi, Afua Ansong, Adedayo Agarau, Fatima Camara, Sadia Hassan, Safia Jama, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku, Nadra Mabrouk, Nkateko Masinga, Jamila Osman, and Tryphena Yeboah.

Amatisoritsero Ede, born in Nigeria, worked as an editor at Spectrum Books, a major Nigerian publisher. His previous poetry collections have won various awards, including the ANA All Africa Christopher Okigbo Prize for Literature (endowed by Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel Laureate for literature). His writing also appears in various anthologies and he was the 2005-2006 Writer-in-Residence at Carleton University. Chris Abani, curator of Akashic's Black Goat poetry imprint, is a Nigerian poet and novelist and the author of Song for Night, The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail, and GraceLand (a selection of the Today Show Book Club; winner of the 2005 PEN/Hemingway Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award).

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781617754517
ISBN 10	161775451X
Title	New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tatu)
Author	Kwame Dawes
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Akashic Books,U.S.
Year published	2016-04-19
Number of pages	300
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.