{"product_id":"saba-new-generation-african-poets-a-chapbook-box-set-9781617758164","title":"Saba: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Akashic Books' chapbooks boxset of African poetry has delighted lovers of poetry for 6 years. The latest collection features 11 new voices. Get ready to be inspired and edified with the power of poetic expression.\" --\u003cem\u003eBrittle Paper\u003c\/em\u003e, One of 50 Notable African Books of 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe limited-edition box set is a project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks every year by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today, and it is especially interested in featuring poets who have not yet published their first full-length book of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eleven poets included in this box set are: Michelle Angwenyi, Afua Ansong, Adedayo Agarau, Fatima Camara, Sadia Hassan, Safia Jama, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku, Nadra Mabrouk, Nkateko Masinga, Jamila Osman, and Tryphena Yeboah.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKWAME DAWES\u003c\/b\u003e is the Ghanian-born, award-winning author of twenty-one books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. He has won Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Emmy, and was the 2019 awardee of the Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry. He currently teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHRIS ABANI\u003c\/b\u003e, a Nigerian-born, award-winning poet and novelist, currently teaches at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is the recipient of a PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, a Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond Margins Award, a PEN\/Hemingway Award, and a Guggenheim Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50360643387666,"sku":"9781617758164","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ce29da56-b462-4cb6-af87-e48c8c37007e.jpg?v=1728364606","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/saba-new-generation-african-poets-a-chapbook-box-set-9781617758164","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}