Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations―Black Christian Poetry for Healing, Renewal, and Navigating Grief Classics danger looms: The directions are

danger looms: The directions are difficult

Especially when he gets Micah hooked on a mysterious medicine

a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance—with major strings attached

bracingly original new work from a writer at the peak of his form

A 2021 Hugo Award Finalist

Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations―Black Christian Poetry for Healing, Renewal, and Navigating Grief Classics danger looms: The directions areThe acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and prayer in this vital, life affirming collection about surviving the void and touching the divinethe second book in a creative collaboration between Amistad and Moore Black Press. At age fifteen, Barbara Fant tragically lost her mother, and her world was suddenly upended. I became an angry teenager. I was mad at the world., she recalls. I even stopped praying, but I began to