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Sanctificum

by Chris Abani

98 pages · 2010

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"Abani . . . explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination . . . [he] enters the wound with a boldness that avoids nothing. Highly recommended." -Library Journal "Stunning poems." -New Humanist A self-described "zealot of optimism," poet and novelist Chris Abani bravely travels into the charged intersections of atrocity and love, politics and religion, loss and renewal. In poems of devastating beauty, he investigates complex personal history, family, and romantic love. Sanctificum, Abani's fifth collection of poetry, is his most personal and ambitious

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