Divine, Divine, Divine - Paperback

by Daniel B. Summerhill (Author)

Poetry. African & African American Studies. California Interest. DIVINE, DIVINE, DIVINE is an exploration of the divine and the deviant. A consideration of the Black tongue as a home. Life and death through the lense of language. This collection is an ode to the experiences that make us whole and an acknowledgment of those things that fracture us.

Author Biography

Daniel B. Summerhill is a poet, essayist and scholar from Oakland, CA. He is the author of two collections of poems, Divine, Divine, Divine (2021) and Mausoleum of Flowers (2022). The inaugural Poet Laureate of Monterey County, Summerhill has earned fellowships from Baldwin for the Arts and The Watering Hole. His poems and essays appear in The Academy of American Poets, Columbia, Callaloo, Ploughshares, Obsidian, The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. He lives in the Bay Area and is Professor of Poetry at Santa Clara University. Daniel believes in the liberation of oppressed peoples everywhere, especially through the dissolution of empire.