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Septet for the Luminous Ones

Septet for the Luminous Ones

Ife, Fahima

Hardcover

Series: Wesleyan Poetry

General Alternative HealthGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 0819500933
ISBN13: 9780819500939
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: Feb 6 2024
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

A Black poet performs a shamanic soul retrieval of the seven-hundred-year-old diasporic black arts tradition

Finalist for a Northern California Book Award for Poetry

Continuing her search for a neotropical mythos, in this brilliant second collection poet fahima ife articulates various scenes of subduction. Spoken in quiet recognition and grounded in desire, Septet for the Luminous Ones imagines a lush soundscape textured in oblique spiritual fusion of the Taíno and Yoruba. Or, what it sounded like coming together for the first time, and what it sounds like ever after--breathless, diaspora calling. Similar to the incidents in Maroon Choreography, what resounds in these poems is an ecstatic love song of the Caribbean Americas, of the main lands and islands, shaped and reshaped as breathwork, ritual, communion, and fantasy. In essence, the collection speaks to raise the vibrational frequencies of all species on Earth through a sensual pulse of Black English.

From Alchemical Sirens

it flickers in
balsamic appeal

moist in the palms of our hands
a psalm a lamp a sap in our laps

an asp

plausible love song after love poems
were last put on hold

as in b l a ck a r t
the new black art is this --

find the lost soul and love it

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