The World After Rain: Anne's Poem Binding:Paperback and classism on a daily

and classism on a daily basis in her pursuit of the American dream for herself and her son

a child of Willow Forest

the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author

like all the other women in the settlement

mother of four-year-old twins

The World After Rain: Anne's Poem Binding:Paperback and classism on a dailyA Carol Shields Prize winner for her collection of fictions Code Noir, Canisia Lubrin now brings readers a long form poetic tribute to her mother, praised by Dionne Brand as "incandescent" In this stunning new poem, Canisia Lubrins signature epic vision is distilled into a elegy to her mother, along an interwoven and unresolvable axis of astonishment that belongs as much to history as to today. Her lucid attention to what might be the oldest metaphor