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Saltwater Demands a Psalm

- Poems
Af: Kweku Abimbola Engelsk Paperback

Saltwater Demands a Psalm

- Poems
Af: Kweku Abimbola Engelsk Paperback
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In Ghana’s Akan tradition, on the eighth day of life a child is named according to the day of the week on which they were born. This marks their true birth. In Kweku Abimbola’s rhapsodic debut, the intimacy of this practice yields an intricately layered poetics of time and body based in Black possibility, ancestry, and joy. While odes and praise songs celebrate rituals of self- and collective-care—of durags, stank faces, and dance—Abimbola’s elegies imagine alternate lives and afterlives for those slain by police, returning to naming as a means of rebirth and reconnection following the lost understanding of time and space that accompanies Black death.
Saltwater Demands a Psalm creates a cosmology in search of Black eternity governed by Adinkra symbols—pictographs central to Ghanaian language and culture in their proverbial meanings—and rooted in units of time created from the rhythms of Black life.These poems groove, remix, and recenter African language and spiritual practice to rejoice in liberation’s struggles and triumphs. Abimbola’s poetry invokes the ecstasy and sorrow of saying the names of the departed, of seeing and being seen, of being called and calling back.

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In Ghana’s Akan tradition, on the eighth day of life a child is named according to the day of the week on which they were born. This marks their true birth. In Kweku Abimbola’s rhapsodic debut, the intimacy of this practice yields an intricately layered poetics of time and body based in Black possibility, ancestry, and joy. While odes and praise songs celebrate rituals of self- and collective-care—of durags, stank faces, and dance—Abimbola’s elegies imagine alternate lives and afterlives for those slain by police, returning to naming as a means of rebirth and reconnection following the lost understanding of time and space that accompanies Black death.
Saltwater Demands a Psalm creates a cosmology in search of Black eternity governed by Adinkra symbols—pictographs central to Ghanaian language and culture in their proverbial meanings—and rooted in units of time created from the rhythms of Black life.These poems groove, remix, and recenter African language and spiritual practice to rejoice in liberation’s struggles and triumphs. Abimbola’s poetry invokes the ecstasy and sorrow of saying the names of the departed, of seeing and being seen, of being called and calling back.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 96
ISBN-13: 9781644452271
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1644452278
Kategori: Lyrik af en forfatter
Udg. Dato: 4 apr 2023
Længde: 10mm
Bredde: 228mm
Højde: 176mm
Forlag: Graywolf Press
Oplagsdato: 4 apr 2023
Forfatter(e): Kweku Abimbola
Forfatter(e) Kweku Abimbola

Kategori Lyrik af en forfatter

ISBN-13 9781644452271

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 96

Udgave

Længde 10mm

Bredde 228mm

Højde 176mm

Udg. Dato 4 apr 2023

Oplagsdato 4 apr 2023

Forlag Graywolf Press