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""So rarely do we come across a book like stages, which mirrors how a day, an hour, a moment--can engage every layer of our being. This collection will dazzle you with swirling musings which authentically ground and unground our desires, histories, and identities."" --Marisa Tirado, author of Selena Didn't Know Spanish Either Critically acclaimed writer Tramaine Suubi follows up her debut phases, with stages. This powerful meditation, written with the endurance of Lucille Clifton, focuses on choices and changes throughout life, from Yellow Dwarf to Protostar. In this breathtaking companion poetry collection, inspired by the evolution of our brightest star, Tramaine Suubi offers poems alluding to the history of how it came to be and its effects on each human life. Readers will discover poems exploring everything from the gimmicks of capitalism to the false promises of tranquility. This is another brilliant collection that will only reinforce Suubi as a rising star of her generation.

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""Like celestial bodies, these poems can transfix, predict, and guide one through both dying and newborn light, reminding the reader, 'civility is a performance you savage in your dreams.'"" -- ""Steven Leyva, author of The Opposite of Cruelty"" ""Suubi is a visionary love poet, and stages makes a singular life feel vaster than the life cycle of a star. In this poetry of dissolution and re-making, of multiplications and expansion, embodied tenderness is a force capable of moving us 'beyond the binary.'"" -- ""Mary Szybist, National Book Award winning author"" ""Suubi's sharp, often unblinking, gaze renders each detail with striking precision. What a collection, what a book, what a way to reinvent what African poetry can do, what it will do, what it will continue to do. A second coming that deserves all the praise for its excellence."" -- ""Adedayo Agarau, author of The Years of Blood""

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Tramaine Suubi is a multilingual writer from Kampala, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of phases and stages, and her creative writing has appeared in over twenty literary anthologies, journals, magazines, and reviews. She works towards the total liberation of all oppressed people. Tramaine Suubi is a multilingual writer from Kampala, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of phases and stages, and her creative writing has appeared in over twenty literary anthologies, journals, magazines, and reviews. She works towards the total liberation of all oppressed people.

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