Description
Menkiti, Ifeanyi. Before a Common Soil. Washington, D.C.: Ilora Press, 2007. First Edition. Card Wrappers. Near Fine. 68pp. 750 copies. Inscribed by Menkiti in 2012 with, additionally, a slip of paper laid in, bearing (in his hand) contact details for both his college’s philosophy department & the Grolier Poetry Bookshop which he ran from 2006 until his death in 2019. Minutely handled.








The Lover's Pinch
Strong in the Rain
Dog Poems
Steep Tea
Milk and Honey
Being Alive
The Silvering
Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar: A Book of Strange and Comic Poems
101 Poems About Childhood