Tanya Shirley is an award-winning poet and educator. She lectures in the department of literatures at the University of the West Indies as well as a fellow of Cave Canem, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. Her work has appeared widely including in "The Caribbean Writer"," New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology," and "Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism."
This second collection of poems confirms why Tanya Shirley is so much in demand for readings. The stories she tells have their finger on the pulse of contemporary Jamaica in all its exuberance and brokenness. She tells these stories with a winning mixture of acute observation, outrage,...
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