DEATH AND I have been waiting for

I have been waiting for a book like this forever

Its form is prodded and rearranged

The many voices that emerge in these poems--from historic Black personalities

at that moment

immersing us in a richly captured life

DEATH AND I have been waiting forPoetry. Inside the Castle, 2023. Paperback, full color, 110 pages. 8"x 8" x 0. 2857" From NMB: A collection of poems that looks like no other. Prose reflections in light orange ink are fused to yellow pages like a watermark. Typed over the prose in black ink, poems act as both distillation and interruption. Woods makes full use of the mechanics of typing and typography to beautifully lyrical effects. The inventive form is at the same time highly