Poetry. "For many years I have admired the restless and generously spirited poems of Andrew Kaufman. He really does go to both sides of the Niger both literally and metaphorically. This is not only a splendid book but it's also splendid journey " Thomas Lux

"Kaufman accomplishes what few poets ever achieve a travel and poetry book combined, which is as earthy and spiritual as anything the renowned anthropologist Levi-Straus could have written. This isn't an Americanized poetical version of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, but the real thing." Hal Sirowitz

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