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Terminal Maladies
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Series: Caapp Book Prize
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ISBN13: 9781637680940
Publisher: Autumn House Press
Published: Sep 16 2024
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Winner of the 2023 CAAPP Book Prize from the University of Pittsburgh's Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Autumn House Press, Okwudili Nebeolisa's debut poetry collection explores a son's relationship with his mother through her battle with cancer and his move from his homeland of Nigeria to the United States.
Nebeolisa's poems highlight how the poet and his family shoulder the responsibility of caregiving together and how Nebeolisa works to bridge the physical, and at times, emotional, distance between them. He wonders: I don't understand / her smile or why she would be submerged / in pain and wouldn't want to admit it. / Who did this to our mothers? The book questions his Nigerian mother's need to act brave and a son's need to protect.
Terminal Maladies reminds us that grief is inevitable, yet unique to each of us, and serves as a tribute to Nebeolisa's mother and is a necessary read for anyone who has faced the challenges of caring for a loved one.
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