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82nd division / D.M. Aderibigbe.
Van Pelt Library PR9387.9.A338 A82 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aderibigbe, D. M. (Damilola Michael), author.
- Series:
- National poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African poetry (English).
- African poetry (English)--21st century.
- Nigeria--Social life and customs--Poetry.
- Nigeria.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 86 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Eighty-second division
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2025]
- Summary:
- "THE POEMS IN 82ND DIVISION, written in various poetic forms such as the villanelle, sonnet, blues poem, duplex, ode, and dramatic monologue, among many others, are collectively a love song to the author's native Nigeria--a former British colony. In the book, whose title poem chronicles the lives of West African soldiers who fought alongside the British in World War II, Aderibigbe examines his homeland's colonized past with brutal clarity and striking musicality, and considers how this past continues to shape every facet of his life and contemporary Nigerian life--be it the holidays that are celebrated, the preferred language of interaction among peers and friends, how a mother expresses love to her child, or the type of movies and snacks consumed. Beyond its thematic unity, lustrous language, and formal virtuosity, this sparkling collection is tied together by Aderibigbe's graceful exploration of the humanity of the people, landscape, and histories that populate the book's pages." -- Back cover.
- Contents:
- Lagos
- 1. Midnight blues
- Autobiography
- 2. Failed elegy
- Duplex (an elegy is)
- Rose
- A brief history of my grandmother
- Outside my grandmother's house
- Window
- Pantoum
- Essay on love
- Ritual
- English
- 3. Morning devotion
- Haibun: annual manual Labor Day
- Lunch break
- The origin of fear
- New Year's Eve
- Duplex (I will tell you)
- Suleja
- Origin of faith
- The teacher
- Gathered during a school trip to the old colonial secretariat, lagos
- 4. I. Christening: an abecedarian
- An explanation of colonialism
- A brief history of pride
- II. After a school trip to the National Museum of Colonial History, Aba
- 82nd division
- 5. The porter
- Letter from my father, Odysseus
- The looted are our ancestors
- Independence Day
- Christmas in Suleja
- 6. Postcolonial prayer.
- Notes:
- 2024 National Poetry Series winner, selected by Colin Channer.
- ISBN:
- 9781636142425
- 1636142427
- OCLC:
- 1484906130
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000299862
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