TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jackson,Major
TI  - Roll deep: poems 
SN  - 9780393246896
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - American poetry
KW  - 21st century
KW  - African American authors
N2  - The poems in Roll Deep are whimsical, urbane, and introspective, seeking a rhythmic sound that expresses the realities of the twenty-first century. Whether about child soldiers in Dadaab, a refugee camp in East Kenya, or human intimacy, the poems build community across borders of language and style. From Urban Renewal, The Dadaab Suite: I have come to Dadaab like an actor on a press release, unprepared for the drained faces of famine-fleeing refugees, my craft s glamour dimmed by hundreds of infant graves, children whose lolling heads final drop landed on their mothers backs like soft stones. What beauty can I spell in this swelter of dust?
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