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Callaloo 26.3 (2003) 707


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Revelation

Chris Abani 

 The memory: A dog licking the wail of a violin from evening's face doesn't ring true. Yet: they're finding bodies everyday now one clutching grass one the mud. And: In this gathering of dusk, around slow burning oil lanterns mosquitoes lulling day to sleep - Lies can no longer be told.


 


The italicized lines above are taken from an untitled poem by Rick Reid.

Chris Abani, a Middleton Fellow at the University of Southern California, teaches at Antioch University's MFA program in Los Angeles. A poet, playwright, and fiction writer, Abani is the author of the novels Masters of the Board (Delta, 1985) and Sirocco (Swan, 1987); the plays Room at the Top (IBC, 1983) and Song of a Broken Flute (IMOSU, 1990), among others; and the poetry collections Kalakuta Republic (Saqi, 2001), winner of the 2001 PEN USA West Freedom-to-Write Award and the 2001 Prince Claus of Netherlands Award, and Daphne's Lot (Red Hen Press, 2003). Graceland, a novel, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2004.

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