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Obalúayé
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.00
ISBN13: 9781953447487
Publisher: Flowersong Press
Published: Aug 1 2022
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Obaluaye is a poetry collection for the things that plague us. Obaluaye is a Yoruba god of infirmities and healing.
The poems in this book talk of cradles and graves and every experience in-between, employing the duality attribute of the Orisha of epidemics. Each poem is an experience of health and death wrapped in a pod, of strength and flaws and a thirst for things that elude.
This collection explores the human cycle-the routine of life and death (and a possibility of restoration, rebirth). It seeks to understand the things that haunt us-our fears, our nightmares, quest for freedom, the weight of responsibilities, the paradox of hope, devotion and betrayals, failed states and the covid-19 pandemic.
Obaluaye is a realization that life is a cocktail of sweet, sour and insipid and we are born to run this cycle, reaching for light, reaching for freedom...that ultimately leads to the grave.
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