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Hands Washing Water

Hands Washing Water

Author(s): Chris Abani

Location(s): Nigeria

Genre(s): Poetry

Era(s): early 21st century

“Chris Abani’s poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength.”—Pride

Hands Washing Water is Chris Abani’s fourth poetry collection—a mischievous book of displacement, exile, ancestry, and subversive humor. The central section, “Buffalo Women,” is a Civil War correspondence between lovers that plays on our assumptions about war, gender, morality, and politics.

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