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What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. More about this book >
Desiree C. Bailey is the author of What Noise Against the Cane, which won the 2020 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and the fiction chapbook In Dirt or Saltwater. She has received awards from the New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts and Poets & Writers. Desiree is from Trinidad and Tobago, and Queens, New York.
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