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This new collection from Booker Prize—winning poet/novelist Okri (The Famished Road) engages with pressing social issues and reflects on the power of art and spirit to imagine better worlds. A central preoccupation is how "[t]he world runs ahead while humanity/ Falls behind," and poems directly address the persecution of the Rohingya people, the extremism of Boko Haram, the killing of George Floyd and the resul...Log In or Sign Up to Read More