Christopher Stewart is from Dallas, Ali Lansana is from Enid, OK. A
white man and a black man both born in post Kennedy, post-King
southwestern USA, though both disagree with that geographical tag.
Through these poems, the poets assert that their births, their ways
of seeing, and their pains are rooted in what Ali Lansana's OU film
professor termed "the Walmart Republic," a land where shopping
center is community center. Where the failures of the father are
re-learned in the lessons of the son. As poet Elise Paschen
declares, "Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher Stewart pack the
punch in these gritty poignant poems. Their poetic techniques
counterpoint each other from lyric narratives to sharp edgy sonic
bursts, creating a novel-like narrative. We follow two different
journeys which begin in the Bible Belt and reach adulthood in
places across the map. These gutsy poems explore identity and race
against the backdrop of an ever-changing America."
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