num_pages: 28
description: "With 'In Half Light', Dalia Elhassan holds us accountable for the ways we look to a country to name us, and what is left behind when our countries fail to do so - when they fail us... With this collection, with her poetics of naming and of documentation, Elhassan ensures that future generations of Sudanese - and with whatever 'Sudan' itself will mean in the years ahead - will know those who came before, those who wrote and painted and made photographs so that our history can be traced clearly after so much erasure has been done to us." - Safia Elhillo.Elhassan's chapbook is part of the New-Generation African Poets (SITA) boxset series. The limited-edition boxset is an annual project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today, and it is especially interested in featuring poets who have not yet published their first full-length book of poetry.Cover art: Strength in Honor (detail) (2016), by Aïda Muluneh
language: English
title: In Half Light
publisher: Akashic Books