Author: Yilma Tafere Tasew, Book Review by L. E. Scott

There are poets in this world who write from dreams – they can be magical, creative, cute and sometimes clever.  There are other poets who write because they have seen, felt, lived, smelled, eaten and swallowed the ugliness and fire that humankind can inflict upon its own.  Yilma is a poet born of this fire.  This man, this poet, has been baptized in the wretchedness of man’s brutality against his brother.  This is the source of Yilma’s creativity. Read More…