Poetry. Akilah Oliver's poems incorporate prose, theory, and lyric performance into a powerful testimony of loss and longing. In their journey through the borderlands of sorrow, they grapple with violence, find expression in chants, and, like the graffiti she analyzes, become a place of public and artistic memorial. "An extraordinary gift for everyone"--Alice Notley. Akilah Oliver's earlier collection, THE PUTTERER'S NOTEBOOK, is also available from SPD.