Who Are You Looking For?
Akashic Books
Cover art by Imo Nse Imeh
[Lukau’s] is a poetry that endeavors to empathize with those who have faced injustice—whether political or historical—and simultaneously to challenge the systemic fissures inherent in today’s post-colonial, globalized landscape. … Academic affiliations are brought to bear within the work, both stylistically and in terms of a broader sense of hybrid poetics, where the experimental is juxtaposed with a multicultural, woman-centered take on science and theology.
Karen McCarthy Woolf, from the prefaceExcerpt
Amy Lukau, from “Thoughts of Isaac”the day i saw you.
they took you
to Ethiopiano more talking
i will not be your Sarah
you my Abrahamno defying reality:
Lazarusour
offspring will never number the stars& yet I still hear
absence of your laughter.