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"" Praise for previous book, Ridiculous Light, Best Book of the year by Library Journal Finalist for the Kate Tufts Award The poems of Ridiculous Light are wary of hope yet keep thrumming toward it. Here is a book that takes on the complex task of expanding our capacity for joy, for mundane pleasures, while also reckoning with systemic racism, large-scale catastrophe, and daily, personal pain. —Nicole LeFebvre, The Rumpus These are praise poems for a dark time, musical poems that conjure up stories, transcendent poems to give to your mother, your lover, your friends, yourself—Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle The narrative lyrics in this debut collection travel from intimate to socio-historical and back again, finding room for routine wonders. —New York Times Book Review ""

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Valencia Robin is a poet and visual artist. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The St. Petersburg Review, Black Renaissance Noire, Kweli, The Cortland Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and the 2014 winner of the Hocking Hills Festival of Poetry Competition. She holds an MFA in Art & Design from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia where she currently teaches as a third-year post-MFA fellow.

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