pIn her debut short collection of poems, Skull-Filled Sun, Haitian-American poet Val rie D us evinces a strong voice full of ...jazz riffed, watercolor vignettes that create a gorgeous melange of Kreyol garnished musings...The voice is at once experiencer and witness, revealing multiple perspectives on the roads that all children of the African diaspora must travel Keisha-Gaye Anderson. Down the streets of Brooklyn where she grew up or from her current home of Minneapolis, D us shares honest emotion, strong imagery, and musical language in her poetry, ... with a new and glowing syntax, weaving worlds together, making what seems foreign downright native... Danielle Legros Georges. D us poems embody the life of a second-second-generation Haitian immigrant living in today's America--less the dream of her parents and more a place of overlapping boundaries, identity performance, and cultural expectations. Readers walk with her on the streets, play with her and her friends, love and hurt alo