Where I Dry The Flowers 978-1-63834-024-9 The air in these poems

The air in these poems is thick with conjure and summer heat and the smell of love coming from the kitchen

Adam Falkner has heard what hums at the marrow of men who deceive themselves in order to survive America

even as it warns

author of The January Children

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