Palm-Lined with PotienceBasie Allen Palm 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

"is an epic poem about a daily routine

In You Can Be the Last Leaf

zoals een duivenmelker duiven houdt

corresponding to the five arrows of Kama

part internationale for the world-historical surrealist insurgency

oude godsdiensten

were written by Ezra Pound in Italian

It holds a life story without a life

Andy Warhol

The poems ask: What is feeling

In both text and image

ranges from classic