{"product_id":"nane-new-generation-african-poets-a-chapbook-box-set-hardcover","title":"Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKwame Dawes\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eChris Abani\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short collections by contemporary poets from Africa, packaged together in beautiful boxed sets.\" --\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/em\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 thirteen poets included in this box set are: Selina Nwulu, Ayan M. Omar, Jeremy Teddy Karn, Ajibola Tolase, Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu, Sara Elkamel, Precious Arinze, Lameese Badr, Qutouf Yahia, Edil Hassan, Kolawole Adebayo, Cynthia Amoah, and Saradha Soobrayen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKwame Dawes\u003c\/b\u003e is the Ghana-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 350\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.3 x 9.4 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 26, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699654103103,"sku":"9781617759505","price":41.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6886feb25570bf35645d5c9f06327294.webp?v=1765014053","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/nane-new-generation-african-poets-a-chapbook-box-set-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}