The Naming explores the movements, excesses, and extremes of existing as a postmodern individual, connecting these experiences to ancestry. The poems in this collection examine the various ways one remains tied to their ancestors by reimagining memories, history, homesteads, migration, and the intersections of the past, present, and possible futures. Through this exploration, the collection seeks to rebuild a world that doesn’t merely replicate realities but reinvents, enshrines, and restories them. Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto’s poems offer a vital contribution to African cultural studies through their focus on Igbo heritage and ancestry.…mehr
The Naming explores the movements, excesses, and extremes of existing as a postmodern individual, connecting these experiences to ancestry. The poems in this collection examine the various ways one remains tied to their ancestors by reimagining memories, history, homesteads, migration, and the intersections of the past, present, and possible futures. Through this exploration, the collection seeks to rebuild a world that doesn’t merely replicate realities but reinvents, enshrines, and restories them. Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto’s poems offer a vital contribution to African cultural studies through their focus on Igbo heritage and ancestry.
Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto is from Ishiowerre, Owerri-Nkworji, in Nkwerre, Imo state, Nigeria. He is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the author of the chapbook The Teenager Who Became My Mother. His work has won multiple awards and has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Frontier Poetry, Palette Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Malahat Review, Lolwe, Southword Magazine, Vallum, Mud Season Review, LitMag, Colorado Review, Salamander, Oxford Poetry, and the Republic.
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Acknowledgments Our Fathers’ Fathers A Call at Dawn Appraisal Unfurling Naming Marley’s Lyrics in Two Parts or Where Does It Hurt the Most? What I Said to God, Chukwu Ọ̀kịké The Story of Chinụalụmọgụ Not Looking for Anything with His Lazy Eyes Memorabilia What Chinụalụmọgụ Made with Clouds Once Upon a Time the Teeth The Navel Here The Actual Story About the Keloid on Chinụalụmọgụ’s Left Arm Colors The Gift Teaching My Nephew There Is a New Philosophy Now Called Kwechiri, to Persevere The Measure of Lost Things Itches The Robin in My Heart Worries Once Upon a Girl, a Place of History Chinụalụmọgụ Sits on His Balcony Pretending He Is a Parcel Worries The Teenager Who Became a Mother What They Say I Do Not Carry Well A Dead Son Does Not Answer the Phone The World Will Never Run Out of Bad News Ọzụbụlụ Úgà Monochrome Photos with Fragments in a Closet As Seeing Is a Kind of Brightness Okụzụ At the Darien Gap Dear Hope Finding Ìkwìkwíī, Sweet Night Bird, by the Lamp on a Dim-Lighted Street Ọbashị Confession Chinụalụmọgụ’s Therapist Kept Smiling at His Tricks Web A Page from Chinụalụmọgụ’s Diary Foregrounding Falling Oranges A Gift from Ọlisa Eloka, the One from Umuchu, to His Dearest Friend, Chinụalụmọgụ, Who Received It on the Afternoon of the Third Day After His Traditional Marriage to Mmesoma Mercy Clarity On Chinụalụmọgụ Once Living in Lincoln, Nebraska Forgiveness A Call’s Dusk Notes
Acknowledgments Our Fathers’ Fathers A Call at Dawn Appraisal Unfurling Naming Marley’s Lyrics in Two Parts or Where Does It Hurt the Most? What I Said to God, Chukwu Ọ̀kịké The Story of Chinụalụmọgụ Not Looking for Anything with His Lazy Eyes Memorabilia What Chinụalụmọgụ Made with Clouds Once Upon a Time the Teeth The Navel Here The Actual Story About the Keloid on Chinụalụmọgụ’s Left Arm Colors The Gift Teaching My Nephew There Is a New Philosophy Now Called Kwechiri, to Persevere The Measure of Lost Things Itches The Robin in My Heart Worries Once Upon a Girl, a Place of History Chinụalụmọgụ Sits on His Balcony Pretending He Is a Parcel Worries The Teenager Who Became a Mother What They Say I Do Not Carry Well A Dead Son Does Not Answer the Phone The World Will Never Run Out of Bad News Ọzụbụlụ Úgà Monochrome Photos with Fragments in a Closet As Seeing Is a Kind of Brightness Okụzụ At the Darien Gap Dear Hope Finding Ìkwìkwíī, Sweet Night Bird, by the Lamp on a Dim-Lighted Street Ọbashị Confession Chinụalụmọgụ’s Therapist Kept Smiling at His Tricks Web A Page from Chinụalụmọgụ’s Diary Foregrounding Falling Oranges A Gift from Ọlisa Eloka, the One from Umuchu, to His Dearest Friend, Chinụalụmọgụ, Who Received It on the Afternoon of the Third Day After His Traditional Marriage to Mmesoma Mercy Clarity On Chinụalụmọgụ Once Living in Lincoln, Nebraska Forgiveness A Call’s Dusk Notes
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