Using epistolary letters and fragments, Abracadabra, Sunshine collects multiple personal, cultural, and historical narratives that embrace the tragedy, magic, and beauty that is the human experience.
Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Major JacksonThe stub of your left leg danglesas I hold you up, my hands inserted under your armslike a child. You are complaining about the itch, the burn, scratch the ghost of your calf and heel. -from "Scratching the Ghost"Dexter L. Booth's ruminations on loss in this award-winning debut are rooted in a time past but one still palpable and persistent. Here are memories of love lost, family ...
