M of the Southern Downpours Style:Paperback nine months pregnant and estranged

nine months pregnant and estranged from the father of her unborn son

Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes

" -- Nicole Helget

Bigotry and hatred still exist

M of the Southern Downpours Style:Paperback nine months pregnant and estrangedBy: Alton Melvar M. Dapanas M of the Southern Downpours is Alton Melvar M Dapanas' second collection of prose poems. Dapanas, a resident of the in betweenness of genres and forms as a prose poet and lyric essayist, crafts a book of poems which are part unsent letter to the dead, part lyric topography of their hometown, and part poetic centones from urban literatures and place writings of Mahmoud Darwish, Richard Siken, Yun Dong ju, Vivek Shraya, Jody