Please make me pretty, I don't want to die by Tawanda Mulalu Faisal Mohyuddin Homer and Marilyn Monroe—Faust’s poems

Homer and Marilyn Monroe—Faust’s poems meditate on the accruement of loss and of the impossibility of home

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'Through poems of meticulous clarity and precision

Carrigskeewaun has been for nearly fifty years Michael Longley’s home-from-home

Please make me pretty, I don't want to die by Tawanda Mulalu Faisal Mohyuddin Homer and Marilyn Monroe—Faust’s poemsPlease make me pretty, I dont want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery, and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness and humor. The speaker of these poems probes romantic and interracial intimacy, the strangeness and difficulty of his experiences as a diasporic Black African in