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~ Chris Abani (Author) "This living with ghosts is our desire to return..." (more)
Key Phrases: begetting nothing, becoming nothing, dog woman
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Chris Abani's Dog Woman is a mesmerizing, haunting, and sometimes subversive exploration of the personal and cultural politics of disempowerment and power. In these heart rousing and lyrically complex poems, the poet eneacts the reconstruction of his feminized selves, and his personae struggle to reform and transform both themselves and the difficult worlds they inhabit. At turns earthy, enigmatic, devout, outraged and compassionate, these elemental women's voices ring true, as they sing siren songs, dirges and hosannas, and as they navigate into new and unknown territories of human will and endurance. Dog Woman is a daring, trailblazing and important book; it's a vital addition to the poetry of our times. --Maurya Simon, author of Ghost Orchid

These poems reveal a prodigious imagination, which is enlivened by sardonic wit and an inexhaustible capacity for irony and empathy. Daring to span a historical continuum that takes us as far back as the rituals of Christ suffering, through the tragic history of the Mayans of Mexico, to the starkly modern concerns of contemporary life, these poems find beauty and grace in the most painful things. The achievement here lies in the poet's ability to bring an engaging intelligence to bear on the complexities of race, gender and memory. Abani's line has a sharp precision that turns a scream into a line of memorable lyric music without losing the emotion and force. That he does this again and again in poems of such vulnerability speaks highly of Abani's art. --Kwame Dawes, author of Midland


About the Author

Chris Abani's novels are GraceLand (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004) and Masters of the Board (Delta, 1985). His poetry collections include Dog Woman (Red Hen, Fall 2004), DaphneÂ’s Lot (Red Hen, 2003), and Kalakuta Republic (Saqi, 2001). He teaches in the MFA Program at Antioch University, Los Angeles and is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside. A Middleton Fellow at the University of Southern California, he is the recipient of the 2001 PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the 2001 Prince Claus Award and a 2003 Lannan Literary Fellowship.

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