And So Did I Emad Blake Hell of Solitude presents a

Hell of Solitude presents a varied and eclectic selection of writings by Ry

In addition to his many poetry collections he published two much admired volumes of short stories and three books for children

a young queer Muslim trying to escape a past in which memory and rumour trace ugly shapes in the dark

whose lucid simplicity of language is married to a rich complexity of structure and the bird-flight of images that connect poem to poem

And So Did I Emad Blake Hell of Solitude presents aA book decades ahead of its time, And So Did I established a new model for the memoir, one built from moments of intense observation, candid self reflection, courageous honesty, and irrepressible humor. It opens with the comedy of a man being struck by an automobile and walking away unscathed and cascades through a year's worth of incidents and encounters that reveal Whitaker's resilient spirit and fine honed understanding of people, their quirks,