High Desert is a psychedelic journal of end-times and an ode to the
American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red
Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast's wildfire
epidemic, Naffis-Sahely's reflections on class, race, and
nationalism chart the region's hidden histories from the Spanish
Colonial Era to the recent pandemic. The poems in High Desert also
revel in their rootlessness, as the author shifts his gaze outside
of the US, travelling from Venice and Florence to Chittagong and St
Petersburg, tackling our turbulent times and the depths of its
problems in searing, extraordinary poems of witness and vision.
High Desert is Andre Naffis-Sahely's second collection, following
his debut The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin
Books, 2017), a gathering of portraits of promised lands and those
who go in search of them: travellers, labourers, dreamers; the
hopeful and the dispossessed. It includes poems from his recent
pamphlet The Other Side of Nowhere (Rough Trade Books, 2019). All
his collections present poetry as reportage, as much an act of
memory as of sinuous, clear-eyed vision. Andre Naffis-Sahely is a
poet, editor and translator, and editor of Poetry London. He is a
Visiting Teaching Fellow at the Manchester Writing School in the
UK, and a Lecturer at University of California, Davis, in the US.
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