Death does not end at the sea / Gbenga Adesina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adesina, Gbenga, Author.

Series:

The Raz/Shumaker prairie schooner book prize in poetry

Language:

English

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

99 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2025]

Summary:

"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 ocean 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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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

Elegy of Hands

Acknowledgments.

ISBN:

9781496244772

149624477X

OCLC:

1496485240