Your Crib, My Qibla

Your Crib, My Qibla

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Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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ISBN-13: 1496225805

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Your Crib, My Qibla

Your Crib, My Qibla

Author: Saddiq M. Dzukogi

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2021-03

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 1496225783

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Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Winner Julie Suk Award Winner Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlist Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of memory functions as a space of mourning, connecting the dead with the world of the living. Culminating in an imagined dialogue between the father and his deceased daughter in the intricate space of the family, Your Crib, My Qibla explores grief, the fleeting nature of healing, and the constant obsession of memory as a language to reach the dead.


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Download or read book Your Crib, My Qibla written by Saddiq M. Dzukogi and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Winner Julie Suk Award Winner Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlist Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of memory functions as a space of mourning, connecting the dead with the world of the living. Culminating in an imagined dialogue between the father and his deceased daughter in the intricate space of the family, Your Crib, My Qibla explores grief, the fleeting nature of healing, and the constant obsession of memory as a language to reach the dead.


In the Net

In the Net

Author: Mahmoudan Hawad

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2022-02

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1496230183

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In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a portion of Tuareg lands divided among five nation-states created in the 1960s. This evanescent being, situated on the edge of the abyss and deprived of speech, space, and the right to exist, has reached such a stage of suffering, misery, and oppression that it acquiesces to the erasure implicit in the labels attached to it. Through an avalanche of words, sounds, and gestures, Hawad attempts to free this creature from the net that ensnares it, to patch together a silhouette that is capable of standing up again, to transform pain into a breeding ground for resistance—a resistance requiring a return to the self, the imagination, and ways of thinking about the world differently. The road will be long. Hawad uses poetry, “cartridges of old words, / a thousand and one misfires, botched, reloaded,” as a weapon of resistance.


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Download or read book In the Net written by Mahmoudan Hawad and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a portion of Tuareg lands divided among five nation-states created in the 1960s. This evanescent being, situated on the edge of the abyss and deprived of speech, space, and the right to exist, has reached such a stage of suffering, misery, and oppression that it acquiesces to the erasure implicit in the labels attached to it. Through an avalanche of words, sounds, and gestures, Hawad attempts to free this creature from the net that ensnares it, to patch together a silhouette that is capable of standing up again, to transform pain into a breeding ground for resistance—a resistance requiring a return to the self, the imagination, and ways of thinking about the world differently. The road will be long. Hawad uses poetry, “cartridges of old words, / a thousand and one misfires, botched, reloaded,” as a weapon of resistance.


Loving the Dying

Loving the Dying

Author: Len Verwey

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 1496234685

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Loving the Dying is a collection of poems on life's different stages and what the ineluctable reality of death might imply about how we should think about our lives.


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Download or read book Loving the Dying written by Len Verwey and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loving the Dying is a collection of poems on life's different stages and what the ineluctable reality of death might imply about how we should think about our lives.


Breaking the Silence

Breaking the Silence

Author: Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2023-03

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1496235924

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Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since before the nation’s independence. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley has gathered work from the 1800s to the present, including poets and emerging young writers exploring contemporary literary traditions with African and African diaspora poetry that transcends borders. In this collection, Liberia’s founding settlers wrestle with their identity as African free slaves in the homeland from which their ancestors were captured, and writers of the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries find themselves navigating a landscape at odds with itself. From poets of Liberia’s past to young writers of the present, the contributors to this volume celebrate the beauty of their nation while mourning the devastation of a long, bloody civil war.


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Download or read book Breaking the Silence written by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since before the nation’s independence. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley has gathered work from the 1800s to the present, including poets and emerging young writers exploring contemporary literary traditions with African and African diaspora poetry that transcends borders. In this collection, Liberia’s founding settlers wrestle with their identity as African free slaves in the homeland from which their ancestors were captured, and writers of the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries find themselves navigating a landscape at odds with itself. From poets of Liberia’s past to young writers of the present, the contributors to this volume celebrate the beauty of their nation while mourning the devastation of a long, bloody civil war.


The Rinehart Frames

The Rinehart Frames

Author: Cheswayo Mphanza

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2021-03

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 149622583X

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The poems in The Rinehart Frames seek to exhaust the labyrinths of ekphrasis. By juxtaposing the character of Rinehart from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man with the film 24 Frames by Abbas Kiarostami, the poems leap into secondary histories, spaces, and languages that encompass a collective yet varied consciousness of being. Cheswayo Mphanza’s collection questions the boundaries of diaspora and narrative through a tethering of voices and forms that infringe on monolithic categorizations of Blackness and what can be intersected with it. The poems continue the conversations of the infinite possibilities of the imagination to dabble in, with, and out of history.


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Download or read book The Rinehart Frames written by Cheswayo Mphanza and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in The Rinehart Frames seek to exhaust the labyrinths of ekphrasis. By juxtaposing the character of Rinehart from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man with the film 24 Frames by Abbas Kiarostami, the poems leap into secondary histories, spaces, and languages that encompass a collective yet varied consciousness of being. Cheswayo Mphanza’s collection questions the boundaries of diaspora and narrative through a tethering of voices and forms that infringe on monolithic categorizations of Blackness and what can be intersected with it. The poems continue the conversations of the infinite possibilities of the imagination to dabble in, with, and out of history.


The Gathering of Bastards

The Gathering of Bastards

Author: Romeo Oriogun

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2023-10

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1496238427

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Like I knew, standing on the seashore, the hunger wracking a migrant’s body is movement. —from Romeo Oriogun’s “Migrant by the Sea” The Gathering of Bastards chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external. At the heart of these poems of vulnerability and sharp intelligence, the poet himself is the perpetual migrant embarked on forced journeys that take him across nations in West and North Africa, through Europe, and through American cities as he navigates the challenges of living through terror and loss and wrestles with the meaning of home.


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Download or read book The Gathering of Bastards written by Romeo Oriogun and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like I knew, standing on the seashore, the hunger wracking a migrant’s body is movement. —from Romeo Oriogun’s “Migrant by the Sea” The Gathering of Bastards chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external. At the heart of these poems of vulnerability and sharp intelligence, the poet himself is the perpetual migrant embarked on forced journeys that take him across nations in West and North Africa, through Europe, and through American cities as he navigates the challenges of living through terror and loss and wrestles with the meaning of home.


Origins of the Syma Species

Origins of the Syma Species

Author: Tares Oburumu

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 1496237021

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"Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu's collection mixes music, religion, and political critique, evoking pasts and futures"--


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Download or read book Origins of the Syma Species written by Tares Oburumu and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu's collection mixes music, religion, and political critique, evoking pasts and futures"--


More in Time

More in Time

Author: Jessica Poli

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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ISBN-13: 1496227948

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Mine Mine Mine

Mine Mine Mine

Author: Uhuru Portia Phalafala

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1496235150

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Mine Mine Mine is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala's family's experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using geopoetics to map geopolitics, Phalafala follows the death of her grandfather during a historic juncture in 2018, when a silicosis class action lawsuit against the mining industry in South Africa was settled in favor of the miners. Phalafala ties the catastrophic effects of gold mining on the miners and the environment in Johannesburg to the destruction of Black lives, the institution of the Black family, and Black sociality. Her epic poem addresses racial capitalism, bringing together histories of the transatlantic and trans-Indian slave trades, of plantation economies, and of mining and prison-industrial complexes. As inheritor of the migrant labor lineage, she uses her experience to explore how Black women carry intergenerational trauma of racial capitalism in their bodies and intersects the personal and national, continental and diasporic narration of this history within a critical race framework.


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Download or read book Mine Mine Mine written by Uhuru Portia Phalafala and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mine Mine Mine is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala's family's experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using geopoetics to map geopolitics, Phalafala follows the death of her grandfather during a historic juncture in 2018, when a silicosis class action lawsuit against the mining industry in South Africa was settled in favor of the miners. Phalafala ties the catastrophic effects of gold mining on the miners and the environment in Johannesburg to the destruction of Black lives, the institution of the Black family, and Black sociality. Her epic poem addresses racial capitalism, bringing together histories of the transatlantic and trans-Indian slave trades, of plantation economies, and of mining and prison-industrial complexes. As inheritor of the migrant labor lineage, she uses her experience to explore how Black women carry intergenerational trauma of racial capitalism in their bodies and intersects the personal and national, continental and diasporic narration of this history within a critical race framework.