The World After Rain: Anne's Poem Binding:Paperback the NAACP Image Award for

the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author

and Olive has arrived just in time

and classism on a daily basis in her pursuit of the American dream for herself and her son

and they must do so quickly

on the other hand

The World After Rain: Anne's Poem Binding:Paperback the NAACP Image Award forA Carol Shields Prize winner for her collection of fictions Code Noir, Canisia Lubrin now brings readers a long form poetic tribute to her mother, praised by Dionne Brand as "incandescent" In this stunning new poem, Canisia Lubrins signature epic vision is distilled into a elegy to her mother, along an interwoven and unresolvable axis of astonishment that belongs as much to history as to today. Her lucid attention to what might be the oldest metaphor