Desire Path: Poems

By Migwi Mwangi

Desire Path explores how everyday life, memory, history, and politics work against and toward each other across communities and national boundaries. This collection pleats numerous lives: a boy sent to the shops, a neighborhood thief, widows, gravediggers, debtors, and inheritors. There are multifoliate Englishes and silences, glimpses of music by icons such as Bi Kidude and Kanda Bongo Man. There is eros, storytelling, and haunting joy here.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822968347
• ISBN13: 9780822968344
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 136 Pages