Chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external. 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.
Chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external. 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.
Romeo Oriogun was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and now lives in Iowa. He is the author of Sacrament of Bodies (Nebraska, 2020) and Nomad.
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Acknowledgments I. Departure It Begins with Love Ballet in the Cold A Letter from the Village of Trees Night Songs Cotonou The Wild Mystic Wishbone Ouidah Late December in Abidjan The World Demands from Us Our Existence A Little Cartography of Violence Nadoba Crossing into Togo The Sea Dreams of Us Wind Whisperer A Village Life There Is No End Here On the Road to Paradise The Abandoned Church Camp Welcome Migrant by the Sea The Drowned On Leaving At the Bus Park in Bamako This Way to Water Migrant at the Sahara Someday the Desert Will Sing Ait-Ben-Haddou A Train Stop in the Sahara At the Edge of the Desert Mist The Gallery at the End of Time II. Remembrance From Darkness into Light In the Middle of August, I Saw the Sky A Stranger in Aba Last Days of General Abacha Remembrance Under the Mango Tree Harmattan The River Is by the Door Falling Dusk At Midnight I Dreamt of Rapture Before the Arrival of Rain The Gathering of Bastards Waiting for Rain At Lagos Polo Club III. Wanderer Assimilation Asylee in the Evening of the World The Migrant of Padua O Blue Waters, O Ships! In the Museum of Fine Arts, I Remembered Home All Winter I Had No Love Walking along Harvard Square Flyway Atlantic Beach On Belonging San Juan A Man of Good Fortune Before Nightfall Solstice A Phone Call from Exile Nomad Full Moon Isla Verde Lamentation Offerings Ode to Shadows Echoes The Revolution Is Over Returnee Salute from the Boston Cold
Acknowledgments I. Departure It Begins with Love Ballet in the Cold A Letter from the Village of Trees Night Songs Cotonou The Wild Mystic Wishbone Ouidah Late December in Abidjan The World Demands from Us Our Existence A Little Cartography of Violence Nadoba Crossing into Togo The Sea Dreams of Us Wind Whisperer A Village Life There Is No End Here On the Road to Paradise The Abandoned Church Camp Welcome Migrant by the Sea The Drowned On Leaving At the Bus Park in Bamako This Way to Water Migrant at the Sahara Someday the Desert Will Sing Ait-Ben-Haddou A Train Stop in the Sahara At the Edge of the Desert Mist The Gallery at the End of Time II. Remembrance From Darkness into Light In the Middle of August, I Saw the Sky A Stranger in Aba Last Days of General Abacha Remembrance Under the Mango Tree Harmattan The River Is by the Door Falling Dusk At Midnight I Dreamt of Rapture Before the Arrival of Rain The Gathering of Bastards Waiting for Rain At Lagos Polo Club III. Wanderer Assimilation Asylee in the Evening of the World The Migrant of Padua O Blue Waters, O Ships! In the Museum of Fine Arts, I Remembered Home All Winter I Had No Love Walking along Harvard Square Flyway Atlantic Beach On Belonging San Juan A Man of Good Fortune Before Nightfall Solstice A Phone Call from Exile Nomad Full Moon Isla Verde Lamentation Offerings Ode to Shadows Echoes The Revolution Is Over Returnee Salute from the Boston Cold
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