Poetry. "It's a rare poet who can look the muse in the eye and speak through or with her as Reese has done in this fragmentary and insightful collection, which reads both as a form of exegesis, litera
Questioning the paradigm of a sub-Saharan African Islam as peripheral and largely isolated from the theological, philosophical, literary, and artistic values of the larger Islamic world, Reese (histor
“Manzano’s poems go beyond the traditionally circumscribed lyric, beyond the often humble and household range of so many contemporary poems. Translating those poems, and talking with Manzano about his
