Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set

by Kwame Dawes (Editor), Chris Abani (Editor)

Overview

This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of eleven new African poets.

“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

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.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781636140766
Publisher:	Akashic Books
Publication date:	07/04/2023
Pages:	300
Sales rank:	639,753
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kwame Dawes is the Ghana-born, award-winning author of twenty-one books of poetry 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 currently teaches at the Universityof Nebraska–Lincoln.

Chris Abani, a Nigerian-born, award-winning poet and novelist, currently teaches at Northwestern Universityin 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.

Editorial Reviews

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

“A collection pulsing with fresh talent in a series that poetry lovers worldwide should be grateful for.” —Shelf Awareness

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