Against Heaven: Poems MTO DOVER_APR79 Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages

” It was two months before the world premiere of Juno

reversed meaning

Fletcher must travel with his demon

and chicken keeping hacks

Against Heaven: Poems MTO DOVER_APR79 Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416Winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, selected by Claudia Rankine. Kemi Alabis transcendent debut reimagines the poetic and cultural traditions from which it is born, troubling the waters of some of our countrys central and ordained fictionsthose mythic politics of respectability, resilience, and redemption. Instead of turning to a salvation that has been forced upon them, Alabi turns to the body and the earth as sites of paradise