"A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new."--T. Coraghessan Boyle
The sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the b[...]

"Abani . . . explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination . . . he] enters the wound with a boldness that avoids nothing. Highly recommended." --"Library Journal""Stunning poems." --"New Humanist"A self-described "zealot of optimism," poet and novelist Chris [...]