Saba: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set - by Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani (Mixed Media Product)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of eleven new African poets.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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.<br>--<b><i>Brittle Paper</i></b>, One of 50 Notable African Books of 2020<p>Praise for the chapbook series: <p>Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short collections by contemporary poets from Africa, packaged together in beautiful boxed sets.<br>--<b><i>New York Times Magazine</b></i><p>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.<br>--<b><i>Washington Post</b></i><p>A collection pulsing with fresh talent in a series that poetry lovers worldwide should be grateful for.<br>--<b><i>Shelf Awareness</b></i><p>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.<p><b>The eleven poets included in this box set are: </b> Michelle Angwenyi, Afua Ansong, Adedayo Agarau, Fatima Camara, Sadia Hassan, Safia Jama, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku, Nadra Mabrouk, Nkateko Masinga, Jamila Osman, and Tryphena Yeboah.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>KWAME DAWES</b> is the Ghanian-born, award-winning author of twenty-one books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. He has won Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Emmy, and was the 2019 awardee of the Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry. He currently teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.<p><b>CHRIS ABANI</b>, 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.
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