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Saltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems
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ISBN13: 9781644452271
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Apr 4 2023
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.35 Width: 7.02 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
In Ghana's Akan tradition, on the eighth day of life a child is named according to the day of the week on which they were born. This marks their true birth. In Kweku Abimbola's rhapsodic debut, the intimacy of this practice yields an intricately layered poetics of time and body based in Black possibility, ancestry, and joy. While odes and praise songs celebrate rituals of self- and collective-care--of durags, stank faces, and dance--Abimbola's elegies imagine alternate lives and afterlives for those slain by police, returning to naming as a means of rebirth and reconnection following the lost understanding of time and space that accompanies Black death.
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