Daphne's Lot by Chris Abani

Daphne's Lot

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Daphne's Lot by Chris Abani

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Daphne's Lot

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"The masterful wedding of the narrative and the lyric in these poems (whose subject is the maturation of a sensibility, the coming-of-age of a young Englishwoman-the power of her ties to family, husband and her 'adopted' country, Nigeria-as well as the illumination of her own soul and that of the narrator's) fills the reader with both sorrow and wonder. It is an instructive tale for our age-its vision of the individual will and imagination resisting the madness of politics and the destruction of war is singular and profound."

-Carol Muske-Dukes

Book Details
Publisher:
Red Hen Press
ISBN:
9781888996623
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Chris Abani
Published Date:
2003-03-01
Language:
English
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About the poet

Chris Abani is a novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. Originally from Afikpo, Nigeria, Albani earned a BA in English from Imo State University, Nigeria; an MA in English, Gender and Culture from Birkbeck College, University of London; and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. He is the author of several books of poetry, including Sanctificum (2010) and works of fiction such as The Secret History of Las Vegas (2014). As a writer in Nigeria's military dictatorship, Abani was imprisoned multiple times. Albani's perspective and resilience is revealing. "The art is never about what you write about. The art is about how you write about what you write about. I was a writer before I was in prison."

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About Chris Abani

Trained at Imo State University in Nigeria, Birkbeck College in London, and the University of Southern California, where he earned a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing, Chris Abani writes across poetry, fiction, and essays. He won the 2005 PEN/Hemingway Award for his novel GraceLand and holds a Guggenheim Fellowship. His poetry collections include Kalakuta Republic (2001), Hands Washing Water (2006), Sanctificum (2010), and Smoking the Bible (2022). Now Board of Trustees Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University, he co-founded the African Poetry Book Fund with Kwame Dawes and curates the Black Goat poetry series at Akashic Books. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015, he lives in Chicago.

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About the poet

Chris Abani is a novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. Originally from Afikpo, Nigeria, Albani earned a BA in English from Imo State University, Nigeria; an MA in English, Gender and Culture from Birkbeck College, University of London; and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. He is the author of several books of poetry, including Sanctificum (2010) and works of fiction such as The Secret History of Las Vegas (2014). As a writer in Nigeria's military dictatorship, Abani was imprisoned multiple times. Albani's perspective and resilience is revealing. "The art is never about what you write about. The art is about how you write about what you write about. I was a writer before I was in prison."

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