Okwudili Nebeolisa

Terminal Maladies (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Okwudili Nebeolisa's debut poetry collection, Terminal Maladies, serves as an intimate exploration of the relationship between a mother and son and their emotional journey during her battle with cancer. Throughout the book, Nebeolisa attempts to reconcile his guilt of starting a new life in the United States, far away from his mother and his home in Nigeria. Depicting tender moments, Terminal Maladies highlights how the poet and his family shoulder the responsibility of caregiving together and how Nebeolisa works to bridge the physical, and at times, emotional, distance between them. He wonders: "I don't understand / her smile or why she would be submerged / in pain and wouldn't want to admit it. / Who did this to our mothers?" The book questions his Nigerian mother's need to act brave and a son's need to protect. Terminal Maladies reminds us that grief is inevitable, yet unique to each of us, and serves as a tribute to Nebeolisa's mother and is a necessary read for anyone who has faced the challenges of caring for a loved one.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Autumn House Press
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781637680957
• Artikelnr.: 72712091

Autorenporträt

Okwudili Nebeolisa was born in Kaduna, Nigeria. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop where he was a Provost Fellow and the winner of the Prairie Lights' John Leggett Prize for Fiction. His poetry has received support from the Elizabeth George Founda-tion and the Granum Foundation. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Im-age, New England Review, Salamander Magazine, Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and The Threepenny Review, and his nonfiction has appeared in Catapult and Commonwealth Writers. Currently, he lives in Minneapolis and is pursuing an MFA in fiction at the University of Minnesota where he won the Gessell Award for Excellence in Poetry.