Daphne's Lot Author:Chris Abani The masterful wedding of the narrative and the lyric in these poems (whose subject is the maturation of a sensibility, the coming-of-age of a young Englishwoman the power of her ties to family, husband and her "adopted" country, Nigeria as well as the illumination of her own soul and that of the narrators) fills the reader wi... more »th both sorrow and wonder. It is an instructive tale for our age its vision of the individual will and imagination resisting the madness of politics and the destruction of war is singular and profound. (Description by Carol Muske-Dukes)« less