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Hands Washing Water
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ISBN13: 9781556592478
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: Oct 1 2006
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.28 Depth: 7.96
Language: English
Chris Abani's poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength.--Pride
Hands Washing Water is Chris Abani's fourth poetry collection--a mischievous book of displacement, exile, ancestry, and subversive humor. The central section, Buffalo Women, is a Civil War correspondence between lovers that plays on our assumptions about war, gender, morality, and politics.
Sweetest Henri,
I know we promised to be honest,
one to the other, but your recent missive,
though welcome as any epistle from you,
filled me with a dread that clung
like dampness to wet wood. I am terrified
for your immortal soul, dear sweet Henri.
This mad war of Lincoln is infecting you
with a sickness too depraved to even address. . .
Abani's writing is ruthless, at times traumatic, and consistently filled with surprising twists and turns.
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