Daphne’s Lot - Softcover

Abani, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888996625 ISBN 13: 9781888996623

Publisher: Red Hen Press, 2003

Synopsis

"The masterful wedding of the narrative and the lyric in these poems (whose subject is the maturation of a sensibility, the coming-of-age of a young Englishwoman―the power of her ties to family, husband and her 'adopted' country, Nigeria―as well as the illumination of her own soul and that of the narrator's) fills the reader with both sorrow and wonder. It is an instructive tale for our age―its vision of the individual will and imagination resisting the madness of politics and the destruction of war is singular and profound."

―Carol Muske-Dukes

About this title

About the Author:

Chris Abani has published two novels, Masters of the Board (Delta, 1985) which won the 1983 Delta Fiction Award, and Sirocco (Swan, 1987). His short fiction has been widely anthologized. He has written and produced two plays, Room at the Top (IBC, 1983) and Song of a Broken Flute (IMOSU, 1990). His last book of poetry, Kalakuta Republic (Saqi, 2001), received the 2001 PEN USA West Freedom-to-Write Award and the 2001 Prince Claus of Netherlands Award. He is a Middleton Fellow at USC and teaches at Antioch University’s MFA program in Los Angeles.

Review:

. . . what happens when moral boundaries are obliterated and the sacredness of life becomes a kind of cynical joke. -- Ronald Gottesman, Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California

Daphne’s Lot is an absolute tour de force! -- David St. John

With the language of hard truth lifted by singing Abani speaks what is impossible to speak. -- Joy Harjo, Mvskoke poet and musician

About this edition

• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1888996625
• ISBN 13: 9781888996623
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112