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High Desert
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9781780376202
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: Aug 30 2022
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
High Desert is an ode to the American Southwest, exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast's wildfire epidemic.
Naffis-Sahely's reflections on class, race, and nationalism chart the region's hidden histories from the Spanish Colonial Era to the current pandemic. The poems in High Desert also revel in their rootlessness, as the author shifts his gaze outside of the US, traveling from Venice and Florence to Chittagong and St Petersburg, tackling our turbulent times and the depths of its problems in searing, extraordinary poems of witness and vision.
This is Naffis-Sahely's second collection, following his debut, The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin, 2017), a gathering of portraits of promised lands and those who go in search of them: travelers, laborers, dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. It includes poems from his recent pamphlet The Other Side of Nowhere (Rough Trade Books, 2019). All his collections present poetry as reportage, as much an act of memory as of sinuous, clear-eyed vision. High Desert was named as one of the '20 best poetry books of 2022' in The Telegraph.
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