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Sacrament of bodies / Romeo Oriogun.
Van Pelt Library PR9387.9.O747 S23 2020
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oriogun, Romeo, author.
- Series:
- African poetry book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nigerian poetry--21st century.
- Nigerian poetry.
- Sexual minority community--Nigeria--Poetry.
- Sexual minority community.
- Nigeria.
- LGBTQ+ communities.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- LGBTQ+ poetry
- Physical Description:
- 63 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Sacrament of Bodies examines queerness in Nigerian society, masculinity, and the place of memory in grief and survival"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Before Your Mama Knew Us as Light
- The Ritual of Giving a Body its Name
- Cathedral of a Broken Body
- Departure
- Kumbaya
- Saddest Night Alive
- Elegy for a Burnt Friend
- Coming Out
- How to Survive the Fire
- At Udi
- Denial
- The Guilt of Exile
- To the Man Who Mocked My Scared Body
- Boy
- Pink Club
- Before You Leave
- The Birthday
- A Viral Picture
- Satan Be Gone
- What We Do Not Want
- The Lost Chapter of the Bible Written After God Stopped Receiving the Smoke of Burnt Flesh
- Elegua
- The Queer Boy Remembers Colonization
- Sacrament of Bodies
- I Do Not Want My Body to Fly
- FM
- My Body Is No Miracle
- My Tinder Date Speak of Fruits
- A Reversed Epithalamium or What Didn't See the Light
- Heaven Is A Back Alley Without God
- Goodbye
- Exile
- Battle of the Rams
- Finding Home
- What the World Won't Show Us
- Everything Must Die
- On the 23rd Death Anniversary of my Father
- Prelude to Freedom
- Sermon of Pain
- Meeting My Mother through Death
- After a Blackout.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- ISBN:
- 9781496219640
- 1496219643
- OCLC:
- 1122685772
- Publisher Number:
- 40029832934
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