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There Will Still Be The Body

 

“I’ve been reading and loving poems for more than half my life and never have I come into contact with a writer whose voice is so instinctually pronounced, so singularly designed to continually siphon survival from what haunts. What is time to the healing self? Here in There Will Still Be the Body, we are submerged in a brazen lyric that hovers above the temporal and gifts us the hard-won lessons of the interior. The poems in this book at once reinvent and abandon language, opting instead for a vernacular both of and beyond the body.  For the body is temporary but what this author has created here will live forever. What I’m saying is that I picked up this book and have not returned from where it took me. What I’m saying is that in a future not at all distant I’mma be telling people I knew Zaphra forreal.”

– Angel Nafis