Adeoba

Exodus

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, the collection Exodus explores themes of migration—both forced and free—and of memory, transition, and the intersections between the imagined and the historic.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Seitenzahl: 78
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 122g
• ISBN-13: 9781496221179
• ISBN-10: 1496221176
• Artikelnr.: 58017821

Autorenporträt

‘Gbenga Adeoba is a graduate fellow at the University of Iowa. Born in Nigeria, he is the author of the chapbook Here Is Water, which appeared in the African Poetry Book Fund’s New-Generation African Poets Series. His work has been published in Oxford Poetry, Pleiades, Salamander, Poet Lore, African American Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.  

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, by Kwame Dawes    
Acknowledgments    
I
Resurrection    
Seafarers    
Nightshift at the Coast    
All the Little Lights Going Out    
Child of the World    
Thresholds    
Half Acre of Water    
Exodus    
Leaving Agadez    
Chorography    
A Funeral Hymn in Falsetto    
What Birds Sing of in Libya    
Middle Passage    
Eclipse    
Pa Cudjo Lewis Weaves a Song    
Desert Fathers    
A Short Essay on Drowning    
II
Noah
Here Is Water    
20, Gbogi Street    
Rain Choral    
Numbers    
The Morning After    
Gunfire    
War Notes    
Epitaphs    
Nightfall, Aleppo    
Kites        
Promenade    
Notes