Palm-Lined with Potience Solio and sound as she reflects

and sound as she reflects on her relationship with her mother

Sarduy died due to complications with AIDS in 1993

of the destruction of the planet—as well as a passionate idealist for whom every poem is a love poem

” funny and sad—tells another story: of love

Palm-Lined with Potience Solio and sound as she reflectsBasie Allen Palm Lined with Potience is New York City poet and visual artist Basie Allens debut collection of poems. Basies work is by turns political and lyrical, charting both physical and emotional landscapes, making maps of paintings and paintings of maps. While rooted in Pro Black theory, art, and precise description, Basie makes space in the ekphrastic for the eerie and abstract. The poems in this collection search for nodes of truth in a