The Poet Empress Social Activists Will with the gun shoved

Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans

This new edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon’s first work of nonfiction looks inward

For Taylor

we are transported in a Japanese courtyard

and her own grandfather

The Poet Empress Social Activists Will with the gun shovedDELUXE EDITIONfeaturing gorgeous gilded edges, detailed endpapers, and beautiful case art under the book jacket! Debut author Shen Tao introduces readers to the lush, deadly world of The Poet Empress, a sweeping, epic and intimate fantasy perfect for fans of The Serpent & the Wings of Night, The Song of Achilles and She Who Became the Sun. Wei Yin is desperate. After the fifth death of a sibling, with her family and village on the brink of starvation,