num_pages: 90
description: Chris Abani’s fourth poetry collection, Hands Washing Water, is a mischievous book of displacement, exile, ancestry, and subversive humor. The central section, “Buffalo Women,” is a Civil War correspondence between lovers that plays on our assumptions about war, gender, morality, and politics. Abani’s writing is ruthless, boldly engages with trauma, and is filled with surprising twists and turns.
language: English
title: Hands Washing Water
titlecomplete: Hands Washing Water
genres: Poetry, Africa, African Literature
ratings_count: 91
publisher: Copper Canyon Press