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Death Does Not End at the Sea
Paperback
Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781496244772
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Sep 1 2025
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 9.00 Depth: 6.00
Language: English
Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
Winner of the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Finalist for the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize
Finalist for the 2026 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection
Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry
In Gbenga Adesina's groundbreaking debut book of poems, a defiant and wise exploration of exile, voyages, and spiritual odysseys, we encounter figures embarking on journeys haunted by history--a son keeps dreaming he carried his dead father across the sea; a young Black father, tired of fear and breathlessness, travels with his son in search of the ghost of James Baldwin--to Paris, the south of France, Turkey, and Senegal to investigate his ancestral roots; and finally, a group of immigrants on small boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea sing in order not to drown, in a stunning sequence that invokes the middle passage. In a lyrical voice at once new and surprisingly ancient, Adesina's Death Does Not End at the Sea explores the complexity of elusive citizenship, an immigrant's brokenhearted prayer for a new beginning, a chorus of elegies, and a cosmic love song between the living and the dead.
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