The Skin of Dreams: New and Collected Poems 1995-2018

Traversing twenty-three years of earth and breath Quraysh Ali Lansana’s first new and collected poems roadmaps small town Oklahoma to southside Chicago in compelling poems that question surprise and dare. As a direct descendent of the Black Arts Movement and last student of Miss Gwendolyn Brooks Lansana explores the complicated internal and external terrain of Blackness and history from a post-King post-Kennedy childhood through the election of the first non-White president while grappling with the definition of home. These are poems that cry sing scream and see.