Daphne's Lot

Christopher Abani

Red Hen Press, Jan 1, 2003 - Poetry - 111 pages

Daphne?s Lot (An Epic) is an event of history, myth, and knowledge in the event of war and the ongoing turbulence of being human. With the language of hard truth lifted by singing Abani speaks what is impossible to speak. His poetry makes a shine in the hellish bogs where it is rare to see shine. Kindness is the measure of these poems. It?s a beautiful and tough poetry. ?Joy HarjoMvskoke poet and musician

Contents

• AUTHORS NOTE: 9
• Cloisters: 81
• Benediction: 109

About the author

Chris Abani has published two novels, Masters of the Board (Delta, 1985) which won the 1983 Delta Fiction Award, and Sirocco (Swan, 1987). His short fiction has been widely anthologized. He has written and produced two plays, Room at the Top (IBC, 1983) and Song of a Broken Flute (IMOSU, 1990). His last book of poetry, Kalakuta Republic (Saqi, 2001), received the 2001 PEN USA West Freedom-to-Write Award and the 2001 Prince Claus of Netherlands Award. He is a Middleton Fellow at USC and teaches at Antioch University?s MFA program in Los Angeles.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Daphne's Lot
• Author: Christopher Abani
• Contributor: Red Hen Press
• Publisher: Red Hen Press, 2003
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 4, 2008
• ISBN: 1888996625, 9781888996623
• Length: 111 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / General