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Kamara performs the audio of her Jake Adam York Prize-winning first full-length poetry collection (after the chapbook A Brief Biography of My Name) with elegance and restraint. Born in Oakland, CA, to a Sierra Leonean family, Kamara pens a love letter to her hometown, "the bucktoothed city that made you wish you never wore braces." She celebrates Oakland not as the media often portrays it, as a place of da...Log In or Sign Up to Read More