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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Poems Written Before Jumping Into a Lagos Lagoon

Poems Written Before Jumping Into a Lagos Lagoon

Aribo, Tosin

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 9786147162
ISBN13: 9789786147161
Publisher: Worital
Published: Nov 20 2025
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Poems Written Before Jumping into a Lagos Lagoon is a Molotov cocktail of verse, a searing mosaic of urban chaos, postcolonial disillusionment, and existential defiance.
From the explosive opener Machine Gun Poetry to the last, Man in California, the collection interrogates identity, violence, loss, resistance, absurdity, Irony, love, death, survival, personal hauntings, social decay, diasporic invention, and the fragile tethers of sanity in the vibrant fever-dream city of Lagos.

Works like When I saw my Daddy Dead on a Gurney- a devastating elegy that etches grief into flesh and language, The Killing of Solomon Olayoriju- a piece that ponders the fragility of normalcy in the face of chaos, Iroko and Chief are pieces that deal with loss following the assassination of the poet's father in Lagos.

Shrapnel and Countryman root struggle in cultural memory, celebrating defiance as ancestral inheritance.

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