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Who Are You Looking For?

by Amy M. Lukau (included in Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set)

Akashic Books

Cover art by Imo Nse Imeh

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[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 preface

Excerpt

the day i saw you.

they took you
to Ethiopia

no more talking

i will not be your Sarah
you my Abraham

no defying reality:
Lazarus

our
offspring will never number the stars

& yet I still hear

absence of your laughter.

Amy Lukau, from “Thoughts of Isaac”
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