Refractive AfricaWill Alexander Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the California Book Award, Refractive Africa, a 'Ballet of the Forgotten', is a searing pas de trois. The volumes opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean Joseph Rabearivelotwo writers whose luminous art suffered 'colonial wrath through refraction.' A tribute to the Congo forms the bridge and

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and radiates out into the space between them

In 2020 won Marieke Lucas Rijneveld de International Booker Prize voor The Discomfort of Evening (De avond is ongemak)

Suggereert de dichter dat poëzie toegang biedt tot domeinen die de menselijke ervaring overstijgen

Simones en Dianina vertelt een verhaal over zijn

the voice containing all our lifetimes

Harm is embedded in English

an invitation to a journey through Black America

Philip Huff dicht met een scherp oog en een warm hart

het stadsleven

known for his prowess with invented language and sound poetry

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