Praise for The Unbnd Verses— available from Glass Poetry Press

“Each of the many questions implied and asked in The Unbnd Verses opens it wider, until one feels that in this book one sees both a person and a mind larger than the small space ought to allow. What The Unbnd Verses has, what is at the foundation of these musical, delicate, and yet forceful poems, is wondering itself, and that is the gift it gives.”
— Shane McCrae, author of Cain Named the Animal

“In The Unbnd Verses, Kwame Opoku-Duku finds the holy in the mundane: the voice of Lauryn Hill, Milly Rocking on the street, walking down the streets of Harlem at 3am. Not only is he delivering a sermon, he's constructing a bible on what it feels like to be both black and full of breath. He's showing us how to love ourselves in spite of fear. How to walk with grief yet not collapse. How to be free and full of belief.”
—Karisma Price, author of I’m Always So Serious

“Kwame Opoku-Duku's poetry tells us that what is holy is more real than it is ephemeral, that so much of who we are is who and what we are capable of losing. And then loving. When I read Kwame's work, I recognize the presence of the divine. The divine questioning and the divine longing, the divine whose ‘definition of holy / changes with each loss.’"

— Devin G. Kelly, author of In This Quiet Church of Night, I Say Amen

“The Unbnd Verses is a buoyant collection in both senses of the word: these carefully constructed poems manage to float with ease; creating worlds with such relish that one feels beckoned into it. I would call this a chapbook full of wisdom, like the Ecclesiastics it references, but as the old head verses in Kwame's beautifully irreverent collection tell us: "Wisdom ain't shit." Instead we get poetry beyond wisdom and beyond meditation on errors, a deep and exhilarating plunge into the praise song.”
— Tova Benjamin, writer, poet, and scholar