Contraband bodies : poems /
"Contraband Bodies is a debut to be reckoned with. Jide Salawu shines in this personal record of diaspora and country lost to precarious politics. Mourning home, Salawu deploys gritty language, razor-edge imagery, decolonial poetics, and granular details to highlight the diverse circumstances o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edmonton, Alberta :
NeWest Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Crow said poetry.
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| Summary: | "Contraband Bodies is a debut to be reckoned with. Jide Salawu shines in this personal record of diaspora and country lost to precarious politics. Mourning home, Salawu deploys gritty language, razor-edge imagery, decolonial poetics, and granular details to highlight the diverse circumstances of being a Black migrant in Africa and beyond. Salawu meditates on the agony of Atlantic memories and dispersal, confronting new forms of digital kinship. He creates a unique catalogue of images that map the migratory routes from the village to the city, within continental Africa, and across different diasporic landscapes. He builds on a solid canon of migration and mobility in African poetry and brings forward a powerful new Canadian poetic voice."--Page 4 of cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 81 pages ; 23 cm Issued also in electronic format. |
| ISBN: | 9781774391266 1774391260 |