Music For Exile Virgil Abloh We are totally fried

We are totally fried

New York (2016)

which won the middle grade category of the 2014 Katherine Paterson Prize from Hunger Mountain

and reminding us of the elegant enigmas that can be unraveled close to home

Music For Exile Virgil Abloh We are totally friedWind at their back, ear to the ground, the poems in Music For Exile beckon a mythical assemblage, of loss that is personal and historical, intimate and shared. From walking up Canefield River to hearing a thief on the stairs in Philadelphia, from dredging the voices of New Englands enslaved to confronting familial grief, these poems pass with the ache, that ironic hunger for home that exists when home holds violence and cruelty. Nehassaiu deGannes