Lost & Found, paperback
Publication Date: August 4, 2026
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This publication, part of Lost & Found: Series X, features eight poems from Lois Elaine Griffith’s unpublished manuscript Dedications written around the early 2000s. Framed by Griffith’s experiences as a diasporic woman of West Indian descent, the poems document the history, romance, love, and loss witnessed in the ordinary drama of everyday American life. Yoruba beliefs lie at the heart of Griffith’s poetics, where reverence for the ancestors and remembering the bodies dismembered and disremembered by a legacy of transatlantic slavery are part of an aesthetic invested in promoting self-discovery through wrestling with humanity’s beautiful “ugliness.” Dedications is edited by Lost & Found scholar and archival collaborator Joseph Anthony Cáceres.
