A Stranger’s Pose

Nathan Suhr-Sytsma is associate professor of English and a core faculty member of the Institute of African Studies at Emory University. His first book,&nbsp;Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature, was published in 2017 by Cambridge University Press. He is now at work on a book about contemporary poetry and pan-African literary communities.

Nathan Suhr-Sytsma

An Intimate Stranger: Traveling with Emmanuel Iduma

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Nathan Suhr-Sytsma is associate professor of English and a core faculty member of the Institute of African Studies at Emory University. His first book,&nbsp;Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature, was published in 2017 by Cambridge University Press. He is now at work on a book about contemporary poetry and pan-African literary communities.