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A Toast in the House of Friends
by Akilah Oliver

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• Release date: February 1, 2009
• Author: Akilah Oliver
• Genres: poetry
• Language: english
• Format: paperback, 100 pages
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• ISBN: 9781566892223 (1566892228)

About The Book

« Don’t expect sense from these poems, in which grief, politics, literary theory, and sexuality interweave. But do expect language surprise and beautiful metaphors… When [Akilah] Oliver presents her experiences in metaphor-rich language, the reader feels what she feels: incredible loss, infinite pain. » — Library Journal

“An extraordinary gift for everyone.” — Alice Notley

Written for her son, Oluchi McDonald (1982 — 2003), 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. “If memory is the act of bearing witness,” she writes, “then the dream is a friend driving us somewhere.”

Akilah Oliver is the author of the she said dialogues, recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she currently lives in Brooklyn and curates the Monday Night Reading Series at the Poetry Project.

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