"Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara's Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home-as place, as people, as body, and as language"--
"Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara's Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home-as place, as people, as body, and as language"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Yalie Saweda Kamara is a Sierra Leonean American writer, educator, and researcher from Oakland, California. Selected as the 2022–2023 Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate (2-year term) and a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, she is the editor of the anthology What You Need to Know About Me: Young Writers on Their Experience of Immigration and the author of the chapbooks A Brief Biography of My Name and When the Living Sing. Kamara earned a PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Cincinnati. She is an assistant professor of English at Xavier University and resides in Cincinnati.
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Oakland as Home. Home as Myth U Can’t Touch This Lessons on Rhotacizing: A Shibboleth Mother’s Rules Besaydoo A Brief Biography of My Name Ode Space Eating Malombo Fruit in Freetown, 1989 Duttybox Resurrection A Haiku for the Bus: 54 Fruitvale Bart Station/Merritt College Grab Bag (May 1998) Sweet Baby Fabulist I Ask My Brother Jonathan to Write About Oakland, and He Describes His Room Marshawn Rekia and Oscar and All of Their Sky Cousins Le Champ Lexical #1: L’espoir [en 2020 c’est] Because my mother says don’t repeat this, you must know Souvenir Pest Control A Haiku for the Train: Ligne 7/Corneuve-Villejuif Soumission Chimique Tell Me More, Ms. Angie Bloomington, Part I Elegy for My Two Step Metaphors for My Two Step A Golden Shovel for My Friend Michael Chan A Mouthful Listening to Nina Simone Sing “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” Thurible A Poem for My Uncle Three Days Before My Baptism Repast in the Diversity Center A Haiku Love Letter for Gabby Douglas Visiting Nia Wilson’s Memorial Site How To Write an Ekphrastic Poem About a Nia Wilson Memorial Portrait Memorializing Nia Wilson: 100 Blessings A Nia for Ayana Wahala: A Curse Has Many Heads. In the year that the trash took itself out, Split Infinity In Our New Home Ulotrichous During lunch, Ms. Anne says Aubade For Every Room in Which My Mother Sings New America Freeborn American Beech Aunty X’s dream door has Aunty X Becomes a Unit of Light
Oakland as Home. Home as Myth U Can’t Touch This Lessons on Rhotacizing: A Shibboleth Mother’s Rules Besaydoo A Brief Biography of My Name Ode Space Eating Malombo Fruit in Freetown, 1989 Duttybox Resurrection A Haiku for the Bus: 54 Fruitvale Bart Station/Merritt College Grab Bag (May 1998) Sweet Baby Fabulist I Ask My Brother Jonathan to Write About Oakland, and He Describes His Room Marshawn Rekia and Oscar and All of Their Sky Cousins Le Champ Lexical #1: L’espoir [en 2020 c’est] Because my mother says don’t repeat this, you must know Souvenir Pest Control A Haiku for the Train: Ligne 7/Corneuve-Villejuif Soumission Chimique Tell Me More, Ms. Angie Bloomington, Part I Elegy for My Two Step Metaphors for My Two Step A Golden Shovel for My Friend Michael Chan A Mouthful Listening to Nina Simone Sing “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” Thurible A Poem for My Uncle Three Days Before My Baptism Repast in the Diversity Center A Haiku Love Letter for Gabby Douglas Visiting Nia Wilson’s Memorial Site How To Write an Ekphrastic Poem About a Nia Wilson Memorial Portrait Memorializing Nia Wilson: 100 Blessings A Nia for Ayana Wahala: A Curse Has Many Heads. In the year that the trash took itself out, Split Infinity In Our New Home Ulotrichous During lunch, Ms. Anne says Aubade For Every Room in Which My Mother Sings New America Freeborn American Beech Aunty X’s dream door has Aunty X Becomes a Unit of Light
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