"Valuable for its vivid attempts to make new, locally rooted forms."-Publishers Weekly"A celebration of the work of one of our important world poets for readers both inside and outside Africa."—From the foreword by Kwame Dawes “We pay homage to Kofi Awoonor as a poet not only with a profound vision and articulation of the world, our world, but also with a gift of words that is at home in poetry, in prose, in critical literary studies, and equally in major essays about our African, our human condition.”-From the introduction by Kofi Anyidoho
