Stages: Poems

Author:	Suubi, Tramaine
Binding:	Paperback
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ISBN:	9780063344952
Publisher:	Amistad Press
Language:	English
Page Count:	122
Publication Date:	1/27/2026
Size:	8.00" l x 6.00" w x 0.50"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Poetry	African American
Poetry	Women Authors

Critically acclaimed writer Tramaine Suubi follows up her debut phases, with stages. This powerful meditation, inspired by Lucille Clifton, focuses on choices and changes throughout life, from Yellow Dwarf to Protostar.

In this breathtaking companion poetry collection, inspired by the evolution of our brightest star, Tramaine Suubi offers poems alluding to the history of how it came to be and its effects on each human life. Readers will discover poems exploring everything from the gimmicks of capitalism to the false promises of tranquility.

This is another brilliant collection that will only reinforce Suubi as a rising star of her generation.

"So rarely do we come across a book like stages, which mirrors how a day, an hour, a moment--can engage every layer of our being. This collection will dazzle you with swirling musings which authentically ground and unground our desires, histories, and identities." — Marisa Tirado, author of Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either

"Once, we are looking at a gaggle of geese punctuating the gradient sky, meanwhile, elsewhere we are in Kampala, in Suubi’s poem. Suubi navigates between the outwardly observed and the deeply internal, and the readers are at a crossroads, sometimes witnessing, other times noting the mechanical dance of our small, exiled lives. Suubi’s sharp, often unblinking, gaze renders each detail with striking precision. What a collection, what a book, what a way to reinvent what African poetry can do, what it will do. A second coming that deserves all the praise for its excellence.” — Adedayo Agarau, author of The Years of Blood