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“I realized during the pandemic that it’s about the continuous creation of an environment.”

The book’s title, “Continuous Creation,” drawn by the editor from one of the new poems, is blandly indistinct for the author of “The Rabbiter’s Bounty” and “Killing the Black Dog.”

A poet who lived among sharp implements would have choked to death on a title as aspiring and pasty-faced as “Continuous Creation.”

“Continuous Creation” will be the last unless dingoes and other scavengers find forgotten work and pick it clean.

Both the inaugural exhibition, “African Civilizations: Continuous Creation of Humanity,” and the museum’s curator take a far longer view than the recent centuries of colonization and turmoil.