Name: Saltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems (en Inglés)
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Author: Abimbola, Kweku
ISBN: 9781644452271

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Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Kweku Abimbola

Editorial

Graywolf Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 17.8 x 2.5 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781644452271

Categorías

África
Estados unidos de américa
Afroamericanos
Poesía

Saltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems (en Inglés)

Kweku Abimbola (Autor) · Graywolf Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Saltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems (en Inglés)"

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.