Tryphena Yeboah

“ I wanted poetry to do the impossible, to bridge the gap that death creates. But the more time I spent with her stories, the more time I had to acknowledge all of the ways poetry creates survival, too. I…

In The Years of Blood, though, I think what is critical is the multiple selves that exist in the collection. The I resists a single voice—sometimes dead, other times, alive and in fear—and I think that, that is fascinating to…