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The Gathering of Bastards / Romeo Oriogun.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oriogun, Romeo, author.
- Series:
- African poetry book series.
- African Poetry Book Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--Poetry.
- Immigrants.
- Internal migrants--Africa--Poetry.
- Internal migrants.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (143 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- The Gathering of Bastards chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- African Poetry Book Series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Oriogun, Romeo The Gathering of Bastards
- ISBN:
- 9781496238412
- 1496238419
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