Against Heaven: Poems Sports_Gift_Guide In this powerful collection

In this powerful collection

What if she had gone to Stanford University

who is a pastor

she knows she can’t trust Rowin

Do you know the difference between a fact and an opinion

Against Heaven: Poems Sports_Gift_Guide In this powerful collectionWinner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, selected by Claudia Rankine. Kemi Alabis transcendent debut reimagines the poetic and cultural traditions from which it is born, troubling the waters of some of our countrys central and ordained fictionsthose mythic politics of respectability, resilience, and redemption. Instead of turning to a salvation that has been forced upon them, Alabi turns to the body and the earth as sites of paradise