The World After Rain: Anne's Poem Binding:Paperback as well as Black women

as well as Black women who see bonding as mutual

and Olive has arrived just in time

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and they must do so quickly

The World After Rain: Anne's Poem Binding:Paperback as well as Black womenA Carol Shields Prize winner for her collection of fictions Code Noir, Canisia Lubrin now brings readers a long form poetic tribute to her mother, praised by Dionne Brand as "incandescent" In this stunning new poem, Canisia Lubrins signature epic vision is distilled into a elegy to her mother, along an interwoven and unresolvable axis of astonishment that belongs as much to history as to today. Her lucid attention to what might be the oldest metaphor