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In prickly, immersive language replete with biblical allusion, Ezemi moves from their award-winning fiction (including The Death of Vivek Oji) to a first collection of verse that continues their exploration of self and desire. The poet may present as "a ragtag doll/ scraps from men or places where i left myself," but the scraps we're given—stories of childhood, of broken marriage and seesawing relationships, of negotiating the world's hostility regard...Log In or Sign Up to Read More