Kwame Dawes

In “poems that refuse containment, that arrive in waves, splintering, alive,” 100 Deaf, Disabled, and Neurodivergent writers from around the world give grammar to the “illness” of being out of place with Ableist norms. The African poets are in dialogue with the malaise of memory and bodily unrest, a discourse still thin across the continent.

The Zambian poet’s debut, which won the Sillerman First Book Prize, “questions the boundaries of diaspora and narrative on monolithic categorizations of Blackness.”