Seasons of Mangoes & Brainfire (Paperback)

Winner of the Blue Lynx Prize, the American Book Award, and the Oklahoma Book Award, Carolyne Wright's fifth book of poems is a tour de force which, in Yusef Komunyakaa's words, ..". explodes into a multiple reflection on territories, cultures, flesh, and mind. This surefooted narrator seems compelled to know everything our worlds are made of, every stitch and seam of the song." Roger Weingarten said of the book "Brilliantly seen. Passionately rendered. Here is the spirit of the international artist. Here is a book I couldn't put down."