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My Foolish Fantasies: Prose Poems & Meditations

My Foolish Fantasies: Prose Poems & Meditations

Ceesay, Lamin

Paperback

Literary CriticismIslamPoetry Anthologies

ISBN13: 9798188049812
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 31 2026
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
All we are is words.

One hundred and nine short poems from Gambian writer Lamin Ceesay, wandering between love and aloneness, faith and doubt, the town and the tavern, Africa and the self.

Written in the spoken-word voice of his manifesto, The Little Book of Afrocanos, these prose-poems turn small things, a tree that loses its fruit, a happy cat, a marijuana seed, a town crier, into quiet reckonings with the biggest questions we carry: How do you keep loving in a world that keeps taking? What survives us when the body is gone? And who are you, really, when all the distractions fall away?

Here is a poet who talks to God over wine like an old friend, who grieves a daughter he only met in a dream, who calls The Gambia his lover and Africa a mother who never raised her children, and who insists, again and again, that love is the only sensible reason for living.

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