Palm-Lined with Potience Nell Dunn and extraordinarily sensitive to the

and extraordinarily sensitive to the shape and weight of words

History remembers the bodies and battlefields

Suddenly everyone at school notices Tom and Raks: they have an identity

in blues and rap poems

Palm-Lined with Potience Nell Dunn and extraordinarily sensitive to thePalm 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 tumultuous sea of