- Hardcover: 350 pages
- Published: 9/8/20
- IBSN: 9781617758164
- Genre: Poetry
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New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Saba)
This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of eleven new African poets.
What people are saying…
“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.”
—Brittle Paper, One of 50 Notable African Books of 2020
A Featured Title of Fall 2020, selected by the Academy of American Poets
Praise for the chapbook box set series:
“Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short collections by contemporary poets from Africa, packaged together in beautiful boxed sets.”
—New York Times Magazine
“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.”
—Washington Post
“A collection pulsing with fresh talent in a series that poetry lovers worldwide should be grateful for.”
—Shelf Awareness
Description
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.
The eleven poets included in this box set are: Michelle Angwenyi, Afua Ansong, Adedayo Agarau, Fatima Camara, Sadia Hassan, Safia Jama, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku, Nadra Mabrouk, Nkateko Masinga, Jamila Osman, and Tryphena Yeboah.
Read a feature on the New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Saba), including excerpted poems from each chapbook, at the Poetry Society of America.
- Subjects: Black Interest, Limited Edition/Collectibles, Poetry
- Tags: Adedayo Agarau, African Poetry Book Fund, Afua Ansong, chapbook, Chris Abani, Eight New-Generation African Poets, Fatima Camara, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku, Jamila Osman, Kwame Dawes, Michelle Angwenyi, Nadra Mabrouk, New-Generation African Poets, New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne), New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Saba), New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita), New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano), New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tatu), Nkateko Masinga, poetry, Sadia Hassan, Safia Jama, Tryphena Yeboa
Book Details
Authors
Kwame Dawes is the Ghana-born, award-winning author of twenty-two books of poetry—including Sturge Town from Norton—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 is series editor of the African Poetry Book Series—the latest of which is Kumi: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set. He currently teaches at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Chris Abani, 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. He is the editor of Lagos Noir and the coeditor of Kumi: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set.