Fenestration Allen Riedel the book looks closely at

the book looks closely at the lives and work of two rescuers on the plateau: a young Protestant man

Exploring the beautiful scenery of Val d’Herens and Val d’Anniviers

using contemporary critical approaches and textual analysis to explore larger ideas and themes in rabbinic Judaism

restoring to history his role in the Underground Railroad Josiah Henson led a fascinating life-from the plantation fields of Maryland to the Georgetown Market to the plantations of Kentucky to escaping to freedom in Canada to being introduced to the Queen in England

He brings to light the unifying spiritual tradition that stretches beyond Arthur and Tintagel to the mysteries of modern times

Fenestration Allen Riedel the book looks closely atWinner of The 2024 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, selected by Diane Seuss Fenestration excavates public and private history. The poems here bristle with striking clarity and immediacy while compellingly confronting subjects such as the transatlantic slave trade, familial memory, HIV, environmental perils, and more. What happened inside those slave forts in Ghana, Elmina Castle and Cape Coast Castle, where enslaved Africans were immured for weeks,