Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry In Gbenga Adesina’s debut book of poems, a defiant and wise exploration of exile, voyages, and spiritual odysseys, we encounter figures embarking on journeys haunted by history-a son keeps dreaming he carried his dead father across the sea; a young Black father, tired of fear and breathlessness in America, travels with his son in search of the ghost of James Baldwin-to Paris, the south of France, Turkey, and Senegal to investigate his ancestral roots; and a group of immigrants on small boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea…mehr
Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry In Gbenga Adesina’s debut book of poems, a defiant and wise exploration of exile, voyages, and spiritual odysseys, we encounter figures embarking on journeys haunted by history-a son keeps dreaming he carried his dead father across the sea; a young Black father, tired of fear and breathlessness in America, travels with his son in search of the ghost of James Baldwin-to Paris, the south of France, Turkey, and Senegal to investigate his ancestral roots; and a group of immigrants on small boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea sing in order not to drown, in a stunning sequence that invokes the middle passage. In a lyrical voice at once new and surprisingly ancient, Adesina’s Death Does Not End at the Sea explores the complexity of elusive citizenship, an immigrant’s brokenhearted prayer for a new beginning, a chorus of elegies, and a cosmic love song between the living and the dead.
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The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
Gbenga Adesina, a Nigerian poet and essayist, is the inaugural Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Black and Diasporic Poetry at the Furious Flower Poetry Center, James Madison University. He received his Masters in Fine Arts from New York University, where he was mentored by Yusef Komunyakaa. He is the cofounder and editor of A Long House, a journal of diasporic art, thought, and literature. He has won multiple fellowships, and his poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Harvard Review, Guernica, Narrative, Yale Review, The Best American Poetry, the New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere.
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Glory I I Carried My Father Across The Sea The People's History of 1998 The Wedding Surrender In Search of James Baldwin in Paris (I-IV) Brief History The Lovers of Modena Coma: A Sequence Envoy to the South of France II Death Does Not End at The Sea: A Sequence III In Search of James Baldwin in Istanbul (I-III) All of the Lights Citizen 116th Street Paradise Man Radiating Happiness In Search of James Baldwin in Senegal (I-II) Vows Vanishing Praise GorÉe Envoy to the South of France Elegy of Hands Acknowledgments
Glory I I Carried My Father Across The Sea The People's History of 1998 The Wedding Surrender In Search of James Baldwin in Paris (I-IV) Brief History The Lovers of Modena Coma: A Sequence Envoy to the South of France II Death Does Not End at The Sea: A Sequence III In Search of James Baldwin in Istanbul (I-III) All of the Lights Citizen 116th Street Paradise Man Radiating Happiness In Search of James Baldwin in Senegal (I-II) Vows Vanishing Praise GorÉe Envoy to the South of France Elegy of Hands Acknowledgments
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