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In Okla Elliott's first full-length poetry collection, he seamlessly integrates history, philosophy, science, and personal narrative to form a literary geography that is at once erudite and accessible. Ranging from rural Kentucky to post-Soviet Russia to ancient Egypt, these poems invite the reader on a unique aesthetic and intellectual journey

Okla Elliott is an Illinois Distinguished Fellow at the University of Illinois where he works in the fields of comparative literature and trauma studies. He also holds an MFA from Ohio State University. His nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and translations have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, The Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review, New York Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, A Public Space, and Subtropics, among others. He is the author of the fiction collection From the Crooked Timber (Press 53, 2011), and the book of poetry, THE CARTOGRAPHER'S INK (NYQ Books, 2014). His novel, The Doors You Mark Are Your Own (co- authored with Raul Clement), is forthcoming in early 2015 from Dark House Press, and his book of translation, BLACKBIRDS IN SEPTEMBER: SELECTED SHORTER POEMS OF JÜRGEN BECKER, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in late 2015.