New PhD Student Afua Ansong recently completed her first publication, a chapbook titled American Mercy (Finishing Line Press, 2019).The book presents poetry that discusses what it means to have ownership over a space (both for animals and human beings) and the contention for the continuation of culture. 

 

Reviewers have called this “startling first collection” “both oracle and call to action for our troubled times” (Michelle Yasmine Valladares) and said of her “urgent, intimate poems”: ” Call it original. Call it extraordinary. Call it a wondrous prayer of moral clarity, oracular language, understated humor, Ghanaian heritage, and a gift for the illuminating question” (Julie Sheehan). 

 

Read more and pre-order the chapbook on the press website – here.