Terminal Maladies - Couverture souple

Nebeolisa, Okwudili

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1637680945 ISBN 13 : 9781637680940

Editeur : Autumn House Press, 2024

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Okwudili Nebeolisa was born in Kaduna, Nigeria, and currently lives in Iowa City. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop where he was a Provost Fellow and won the Prairie Lights John Leggetts Prize for Fiction. He has received support for his poetry from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Granum Foundation. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Cincinnati Review, Image, Salamander Magazine, Sewanee Review, and Threepenny Review, and his nonfiction has appeared in Catapult and Commonwealth Writers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Autumn House Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1637680945
• ISBN 13: 9781637680940
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
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