Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, the collection Exodus explores themes of migration—both forced and free—and of memory, transition, and the intersections between the imagined and the historic.
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, the collection Exodus explores themes of migration—both forced and free—and of memory, transition, and the intersections between the imagined and the historic.
‘Gbenga Adeoba is a graduate fellow at the University of Iowa. Born in Nigeria, he is the author of the chapbook Here Is Water, which appeared in the African Poetry Book Fund’s New-Generation African Poets Series. His work has been published in Oxford Poetry, Pleiades, Salamander, Poet Lore, African American Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.
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Foreword, by Kwame Dawes Acknowledgments I Resurrection Seafarers Nightshift at the Coast All the Little Lights Going Out Child of the World Thresholds Half Acre of Water Exodus Leaving Agadez Chorography A Funeral Hymn in Falsetto What Birds Sing of in Libya Middle Passage Eclipse Pa Cudjo Lewis Weaves a Song Desert Fathers A Short Essay on Drowning II Noah Here Is Water 20, Gbogi Street Rain Choral Numbers The Morning After Gunfire War Notes Epitaphs Nightfall, Aleppo Kites Promenade Notes
Foreword, by Kwame Dawes Acknowledgments I Resurrection Seafarers Nightshift at the Coast All the Little Lights Going Out Child of the World Thresholds Half Acre of Water Exodus Leaving Agadez Chorography A Funeral Hymn in Falsetto What Birds Sing of in Libya Middle Passage Eclipse Pa Cudjo Lewis Weaves a Song Desert Fathers A Short Essay on Drowning II Noah Here Is Water 20, Gbogi Street Rain Choral Numbers The Morning After Gunfire War Notes Epitaphs Nightfall, Aleppo Kites Promenade Notes
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