- Hardcover: 300 pages
- Published: 7/4/23
- IBSN: 9781636140766
- Genre: Poetry
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Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set
This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of eleven new African poets.
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What people are saying…
“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
“Editors Dawes and Abani Introduce readers to 11 emerging African poets with distinctive perspectives in this 12-piece, limited-edition box set. Sponsored by the African Poetry Book Fund (APBF), this project has been in production since 2014.”
—Ebony
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: Samuel A. Adeyemi, Nikitta Dede Adjirakor, O-Jeremiah Agbaakin, Rabha Ashry, Jakky Bankong-Obi, Hazem Fahmy, Alain Jules Hirwa, Jay Kophy, Tawiah Naana Akua Mensah, Phodiso Modirwa, and Nneoma Veronica Nwogu.
Read a feature from World Literature Today interviewing coeditors Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani.
- Subjects: Black Interest, Limited Edition/Collectibles, Poetry
- Tags: African Poetry Book Fund, Alain Hirwa, chapbook, Chris Abani, Eight New-Generation African Poets, Hazem Fahmy, Jakky Bankong-Obi, Jay Kophy, Kwame Dawes, 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), Nikitta Adjirakor, Nneoma Veronica Nwogu, O-Jeremiah Agbaakin, Phodiso Modirwa, poetry, Rabha Ashry, Samuel Adeyemi, Tawiah Mensah
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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.