High Desert by André Naffis-Sahely Liverpool University Press but an England where the

but an England where the shadows lengthen and multiply even in its most familiar and domestic corners

all the more urgently so as he grows older

His poetry is a marvel of syncretism: Billie Holiday

‘With a focus on her formative years in Japan

self-interest and civil war

High Desert by André Naffis-Sahely Liverpool University Press but an England where theHigh Desert is a psychedelic journal of end times and an ode to the American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coasts wildfire epidemic, Naffis Sahelys reflections on class, race, and nationalism chart the regions hidden histories from the Spanish Colonial Era to the recent pandemic. The poems in High Desert also revel in their rootlessness, as the author shifts his gaze outside of the