Acclaimed novelist, poet, and public speaker Chris Abani grew up in Afikpo, Nigeria. Author of fourteen books, he is the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship, among many honors. Abani is a Board of Trustees Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University.

"These poems reveal the personal story of two brothers--one elegizing the other--and the larger story of a man in exile: exile of geography, culture, and memory. What we experience in this emotionally generous collection is a ... spiritual reckoning that draws on ancient African traditions of belief, and an intellectual vivacity drawing on various wisdom literatures and traditions"--Back cover.