Lost Cities: Poems

A gorgeous second book by Valencia Robin, author of Ridiculous Light.

Brimming with music, bursting with flora, the poems in Valencia Robin’s second collection are both a walking tour of local neighborhoods and a journey into space and across time—ways of looking and listening to the past in order to find our best way forward. Engaging with an array of artistic heroes—James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Eavan Boland, Gwendolyn Brooks, Etheridge Knight, Audre Lorde, Nina Simone, Pablo Neruda, and St...