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The Lesser Tragedy of Death

BLACK GOAT is an independent poetry imprint of Akashic Books created and curated by award-winning Nigerian author Chris Abani. Black Goat is committed to publishing well-crafted poetry, focusing on experimental and thematically challenging work. The series aims to create a proportional representation of female and non-American poets, with an emphasis on Africans. Series titles include:

Gomer’s Song by Kwame Dawes

The Ravenous Audience by Kate Durbin

Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children by Amatoritsero Ede

Abstraktion und Einfühlung by Percival Everett

Auto Mechanic’s Daughter by Karen Harryman

Controlled Decay by Gabriela Jauregui

eel on reef by Uche Nduka

Conduit by Khadijah Queen

to be hung from the ceiling by strings of varying length by Rick Reid

This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Published by Akashic Books

ePUB ISBN-13: 978-1-936-07079-4

ISBN-13: 978-1-936070-01-5

Library of Congress Control Number: 2009939083

Black Goat

c/o Akashic Books

PO Box 1456

New York, NY 10009

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www.akashicbooks.com

For Paqui

Acknowledgments

Mil gracias to Dean Rader for his generosity and brilliance.

Thank you to Donna Seaman and to Triquarterly for publishing “Twenty-Nine Palms,” and to Daniel Shapiro for including “Spell,” “Brownstone,” “Twenty-Nine Palms,” “Namesake,” and “What You Dream” in Review 78, Literature and Arts of the Americas. Also, my gratitude to Craig Perez and Jennifer Reimer of Achiote Press for their early support of my poetry.

And, of course, un gran abrazo to Chris Abani, friend without peer.

Every Angel is terrible. And yet, alas,

I sing to you …

—Rainer Maria Rilke

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

PREFACE: Tapestry

PART I: 1960–1972