High Desert by André Naffis-Sahely Ken Smith and then got him back

and then got him back on his feet

and a sequence of poems that

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Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other

High Desert by André Naffis-Sahely Ken Smith and then got him backHigh Desert is a psychedelic journal of end times and an ode to the American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coasts wildfire epidemic, Naffis Sahelys reflections on class, race, and nationalism chart the regions hidden histories from the Spanish Colonial Era to the recent pandemic. The poems in High Desert also revel in their rootlessness, as the author shifts his gaze outside of the