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In Gorgeous Display
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ISBN10: 1531504604
ISBN13: 9781531504601
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Sep 5 2023
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781531504601
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Sep 5 2023
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
One of Book Riot's Must-Have New Poetry for Fall 2023
The remarkable debut collection by a young Nigerian queer poet. here / i am not his image / & i envy it / i shut my eyes against what is left / the crackling softness of life / like communion / desire is a marathon / a baton waiting for your grip / here / i am not running / neither is he / i sit with a man for the first time / & we talk about war . . .--FROM BEAUTIFUL BOY WITH GARLANDS AROUND HIS WAIST In Gorgeous Display, by Nigerian poet Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, is a volume dedicated to the memory of those lost to anti-queer violence in Nigeria and elsewhere. In this first full-length collec-tion of his work, Okpara examines queer male identity, effeminacy, and exile, offering meditations on desire and sanctuary, freedom and estrangement. Forty-three poems pierce familial relation-ships, safety, fear, and anxiety portrayed through the outward sign of hand tremors, queer lynching, survival, hope, the emptiness of exile, and reclamation of the self. Embracing the ephemeral and spiritual nature of physical beauty, Okpara also reveals the scars of queer displacement, illuminat-ing the ways that leaving home is never quite the utopia one hopes for and how often the ache of abandonment can haunt a life lived in the present.
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