Poems about author's experiences around the war in the Ivory Coast. He was in the Peace Corps.

"Todd Fredson is the author of The Crucifix-Blocks (Tebot Bach, 2012), which won the Patricia Bibby First Book Award. My country, tonight, his translation of Ivorian poet Josué Guébo’s Mon pays, ce soir, will be published by Action Books in the fall of 2016. Think of Lampedusa, his translation of Guébo’s Songe á Lampedusa, will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2017 as part of its African Poetry Book Series. Fredson's poetry, translations, nonfiction, book reviews, and scholarship appear in American Poetry Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Gulf Coast, Poetry International, Warscapes, Matter: A Journal of Political Poetry and Commentary and other journals and anthologies. Prior to receiving his MFA from Arizona State University, where he began the international section of the literary magazine, Hayden's Ferry Review, Fredson served in the Peace Corps. He lived in a village in the Ivory Coast for two years during the unrest that led to that country's recent civil wars. He was a 2015-16 Fulbright Fellow to the Ivory Coast and is an Edward W. Moses Fellow in the Creative Writing and Literature program at the University of Southern California. He is completing his doctoral dissertation titled "Ivoirité: The Aesthetics of Postcolonial Rupture in Contemporary Ivorian Poetry."

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