# Tano: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set - Hardcover

by **Chris Abani** (Author), **Kwame Dawes** (Author)

"_Tano_ is exquisitely composed and designed. This is a boxed set to be collected--and coveted." --_World Literature Today_

The limited-edition box set is an annual project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today, and it is especially interested in featuring poets who have not yet published their first full-length book of poetry.

The eleven poets included in this box set are: Leila Chatti, Saddiq Dzukogi, Amanda Holiday, Omotara James, Yalie Kamara, Rasaq Malik, Umniya Najaer, Kechi Nomu, Romeo Oriogun, Henk Rossouw, and Alexis Teyie.

### Author Biography

**Kwame Dawes** is the Ghanian-born, award-winning author of eighteen collections of poetry. He has won Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Emmy, and was the 2013 awardee of the Paul Engel Prize. He currently teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

**Chris Abani**, a Nigerian-born, award-winning poet and novelist, currently teaches at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is the recipient of a PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, a Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond Margins Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award, and a Guggenheim Award.

**Number of Pages:** 350

**Dimensions:** 2.1 x 9.4 x 6.2 IN

**Publication Date:** April 10, 2018

## Details

- **Price:** 34.95 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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