ling author and two-time National Slam Poetry Champion, Anis Mojgani has combed through out-of-print editions to put together Songs from Under the River.

A best-of collection for his third Write Bloody release. Popular poems such as "Direct Orders," "Shake the Dust," "Here Am I" and more, are collected alongside lost poems, favorite poems, and new unpublished works. The book showcases what audiences have come to expect from Anis: uplifting words, playful surrealism, and the journey through imagination.

Songs from Under the River allows fans and new readers alike the chance to follow the trajectory of Anis' development, themes, and style of work over his fifteen-year career.


Praise


"Anis Mojgani is a gale force talent, a talent dervish of lyrics and the body's music, a poet who gleefully spurns the boundaries of poet...filling us with that inimitable voice when and wherever we need."

--Patricia Smith, author of Blood Dazzler


"...offers dreamlike eloquent strands of verse..."

--Paste Magazine