Then by Linda Black Chris Wallace-Crabbe shift our perceptions and even

shift our perceptions and even transform who we are

is inspired by her grandparents' advice on newspapers

of an absence (“i dance on horizons and don’t cast shadows”) then a fleeting presence - is handled brilliantly

for himself and for the millions who constitute the African diaspora around the world

Empires of Clay is the first full-length collection from performer

Then by Linda Black Chris Wallace-Crabbe shift our perceptions and even"Linda Blacks sparkling poems charm and beguile and then, quite often, twist a small knife. Under a rubric of little involuntary musings, she makes a miscellany of different forms: prose poems, grid poems, extended aphorisms with a sting in the tail, fantastical flash fiction. They toy with nostalgia, trailing threads of real memories into imaginary word gardens bristling with tricks. Words collude allude, slip over each other, with many near misses.