Nine Persimmons Alison Li and making the dilemmas and

and making the dilemmas and triumphs of their lives accessible to us today

and actively worked toward that goal

`I judge this book to be something of a triumph

covering contemporary spiritualities

imprisonment and violence

Nine Persimmons Alison Li and making the dilemmas andThe Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention In Nine Persimmons Kerry James Evans traces a geography both intimate and far flung Tuscaloosa and Biloxi, Charleston and New Orleans, the Cloisters above Washington Heights, a banana orchard in the Azores, a journey to Rome. The poems move with the gravity of pilgrimage, their compass set between wandering and witness, as they cross from ballfields and shipyards into the charged realms of myth and