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Sanctificum
Chris Abani finds the sacred in a charged and broken world, to "build meaning from detritus."
Book Details
- Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
- Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2010
- Pages: 96
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.40in - 6.00in - 0.40in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9781556593161
- Categories: • American - African American & Black
About the Author
Chris Abani was born in Nigeria in 1966 and published his first novel at sixteen. He has been imprisoned, tortured, and sentenced to death for his literary activities. After fleeing Nigeria he continued to write, and is the author of ten books of poetry and fiction. He teaches at UC Riverside.
Praise for this book
"Abani...explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination...[he] enters the wound with a boldness that avoids nothing. Highly recommended.--Library Journal "A beautiful work of art...elevates art and humanity above meanness and inhumanity.'"--World Literature Today "A brave and challenging book... Reading, I found myself in tears." --Sunday Tribune "Stunning poems... Abani conveys the experience in words shaped into art and made unforgettable by their quietness." --New Humanist