In the poetry collection Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun examines queerness in Nigerian society, masculinity, and the place of memory in grief and survival.
In the poetry collection Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun examines queerness in Nigerian society, masculinity, and the place of memory in grief and survival.
Romeo Oriogun was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He is the author of the chapbooks Burnt Men, The Origin of Butterflies, and Museum of Silence. He was the winner of the 2017 Brunel International African Prize and has received fellowships from Harvard University’s English Department, the IIE-Artist Protection Fund, Oregon Institute for Creative Research, and the Hutchins Institute of African and African American Research. He lives in Iowa, where he is an MFA candidate for poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Inhaltsangabe
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 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 On Forgetting 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 Acknowledgments
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 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 On Forgetting 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 Acknowledgments
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