This exquisite book-length poem is set in colonial Brazil, following the destruction of Palmares, the last of seven fugitive slave enclaves beset by the Portuguese. Amid the flight and reenslavement o
Set in a south Texas border town, Mosquito is the story of Sojourner Nadine Jane Johnson (an African-American truck driver known as "Mosquito") and her accidental and increasing involvement in "the ne
