The Day-Breakers
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Michael Fraser- For poetry readers, but also those interested in racial history, the African diaspora, and the transnational racial dynamics of North America.
- Genre: Fraser employs dramatic monologue and research into the era’s lexicon: he compiled his own dictionary of words, particularly slang, to ensure verisimilitude and authenticity of voice
- Editorial comps include Rita Dove’s Thomas and Beulah, The Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste-Lewis, the Louisiana poems of Yusef Komunyakaa, and the monologues of Ai.
- Born in Grenada, Fraser is a dual Grenadian-Canadian citizen. His work has appeared widely in Canadian literary journals as well as in Best Canadian Poetry, and he is a past winner of the CBC Poetry Prize.
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