Terminal Maladies
Autor Okwudili Nebeolisaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 sep 2024
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 serves as an intimate exploration of the relationship between a Nigerian mother and son. Throughout the book, Nebeolisa navigates the guilt of starting a new life in the United States, far away from his home country and from his mother, who is battling cancer.
Depicting tender moments between mother and son, Terminal Maladies highlights how the poet and his family shoulder the responsibility of caregiving together and how Nebeolisa works to bridge the physical and emotional distance between them. He reflects on the reasons behind his Nigerian mother’s withholding, questioning her need to act bravely alongside his own assumed role as her protector.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781637680940
ISBN-10: 1637680945
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Autumn House Press
Colecția Autumn House Press
ISBN-10: 1637680945
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Autumn House Press
Colecția Autumn House Press
Notă biografică
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.
Cuprins
EVENTUALLY
PHANTOM HAIR
MY FATHER’S CLOTHES
ALL THE WRONG THINGS
KITCHEN SCENE
BREAKING MELON SEEDS WITH MY MOTHER
TAKING STOCK
SOLO JOURNEY TO GOD
SITTING
MONOLOGUE
I COULD STILL HEAR HIM WHISTLING
NOT SO SURE
THE JOKE
METASTASIS
NOMENCLATURE OF MY MOTHER’S PAIN
THINGS MY MOTHER’S CHILDREN DID FOR HER
OPEN WINDOWS
BACKYARD, MORNING
TELEPHONE CONVERSATION
THE PHOTOGRAPH
MY OWN ASH
MEMO
TITHE
AFTER THE RADIOTHERAPY
PERSUASION
BECAUSE
ETIQUETTE
ESCAPING
FACADE
ORANGE
RETROSPECTIVE
THE BLEEDING STORY
SURVIVAL
FAITH, BUT NOT AS A METAPHOR
LITANY OF REMEDIES
SUBTLETIES
SIMPLICITY
SAVINGS
DECOY
SECRECY
THE LAST THING
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Recenzii
"Nebeolisa’s poems are rich with familial and emotional nuances, and are left artfully unresolved. A robust assemblage of dreamscapes, conversations, prayers, and meditations on life and death, this collection humanely reckons with the realities of losing a parent."
“‘Because the growl of thunder was distant,’ the speaker notes in Terminal Maladies, ‘I completely ignored it.’ The mere mention of the far-off rumbling, however, means otherwise. This thunderous collection considers the space between attention and abstraction, between life and death. Which is another way to say love.”
“Nebeolisa’s debut, Terminal Maladies, introduces a poet so skillful and original that his book represents a vital moment in contemporary poetry. Centering around the loss of the poet’s mother, these poems match acute observation with abiding sympathy. Masterful with formal as well as free verse, Nebeolisa moves beyond mere technique: his lines and sentences render the people he portrays with agile care. They also reveal, with often disarming immediacy, a writer capable of remaining in uncertainty and still determined to face unanticipated, often painful truths. Unsparing and yet infinitely tender, these are major poems. They will be with us for a long time to come.”
"Nebeolisa’s Terminal Maladies is an unflinching debut wrought by the power of naming, the power of image, a mother’s belief in the power of prayer. Clear-eyed but abashed, this collection insists on the necessity of memory and the inevitability of elegy. Nebeolisa’s speaker is at once vulnerable and indifferent, yet I felt undone by the speaker’s love for mother and depth of feeling for home no matter the distance."
"Terminal Maladies is a book measured in distance from mother—our first other. In these heartfelt but unerringly unsentimental poems, birth, the differentiation of self, migration, and death are plotted as points along a continuum; the émigré’s geographic separation from his ailing mother presages the ultimate, unfordable one, just as the poet’s estrangement of syntax mirrors interior dislocations. Nebeolisa is a poet of subtlety and surprise, in whose voice his mother’s, on the other end of the line, still reverberates."