Description:
This book of poems creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song, particularly through several instances of found poetry.
Review Quotes: "Ama Codjoe's extraordinary debut poetry chapbook, Blood of the Air, conveys a sense of urgency, vulnerability, and Codjoe's mastery of the poetic craft. Winner of Northwestern University Press' 2019 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize, Blood of the Air explores narratives of women and women figures who have lived, lost, resisted, been subject to breaking and other people's definitions, and who have reclaimed their breaths and freedom . . . Within Codjoe's poetry there is blood but there is also hope and the will to live." --Nadia Alexis, BLACKSTEW