The Naming explores the movements, excesses, and extremes of existing as a postmodern individual, connecting these experiences to ancestry. The poems in this collection examine the various ways one remains tied to their ancestors by reimagining memories, history, homesteads, migration, and the intersections of the past, present, and possible futures. Through this exploration, the collection seeks to rebuild a world that doesn't merely replicate realities but reinvents, enshrines, and restories them.
Chin?a Ezenwa-?haeto's poems offer a vital contribution to African cultural studies through their focus on Igbo heritage and ancestry.
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"The Naming is the story of surrender, how the child surrenders to the parent, and the adult to the infant. Thus, Chin?a Ezenwa-?haeto creates themselves, a poet, a multiplicity of voices, in language that is familiar but entirely new. Beginning with incantations, the collection seems to collect from antiquity and carry the reader on a current of sound through actual historical moments, reverie, confession, and fantasy. The poems recraft the traditional dialogue between life and magic, to the disturbances of the present, in a language that is vivid and resonant. These poems deliver us to the knowledge of what it means to be human, and African, in humor and reverence and wonder."-Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, author of The Everyday Wife and ice cream headache in my bone "Chin?a Ezenwa-?haeto's The Naming engraves in language lineages that whisper through his fingers. And thus, he never separates himself from the grounding of his spiritual force fields. These poems, of such interior strength and wonder, intone wisdoms only found on the outskirts of our parochial facades. The result? The Naming makes peace with historical wounds and spurs us to live in complete astonishment."-Major Jackson, author of Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022 and The Absurd Man
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978-1-4962-4470-3 (9781496244703)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Chin?a Ezenwa-?haeto is from Ishiowerre, Owerri-Nkworji, in Nkwerre, Imo state, Nigeria. He is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the author of the chapbook The Teenager Who Became My Mother. His work has won multiple awards and has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Frontier Poetry, Palette Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Malahat Review, Lolwe, Southword Magazine, Vallum, Mud Season Review, LitMag, Colorado Review, Salamander, Oxford Poetry, and the Republic.
Acknowledgments
Our Fathers' Fathers
A Call at Dawn
Appraisal
Unfurling
Naming
Marley's Lyrics in Two Parts or Where Does It Hurt the Most?
What I Said to God, Chukwu ??k?kE
The Story of Chin?al?m?g? Not Looking for Anything with His Lazy Eyes
Memorabilia
What Chin?al?m?g? Made with Clouds
Once Upon a Time the Teeth
The Navel
Here
The Actual Story About the Keloid on Chin?al?m?g?'s Left Arm
Colors
The Gift
Teaching My Nephew
There Is a New Philosophy Now Called Kwechiri, to Persevere
The Measure of Lost Things
Itches
The Robin in My Heart
Worries
Once Upon a Girl, a Place of History
Chin?al?m?g? Sits on His Balcony Pretending He Is a Parcel
Worries
The Teenager Who Became a Mother
What They Say I Do Not Carry Well
A Dead Son Does Not Answer the Phone
The World Will Never Run Out of Bad News
?z?b?l?
UgA
Monochrome Photos with Fragments in a Closet
As Seeing Is a Kind of Brightness
Ok?z?
At the Darien Gap
Dear Hope
Finding
IkwIkwIi, Sweet Night Bird, by the Lamp on a Dim-Lighted Street
?bash?
Confession
Chin?al?m?g?'s Therapist Kept Smiling at His Tricks
Web
A Page from Chin?al?m?g?'s Diary
Foregrounding
Falling Oranges
A Gift from ?lisa Eloka, the One from Umuchu, to His Dearest Friend, Chin?al?m?g?, Who Received It on the Afternoon of the Third Day After His Traditional Marriage to Mmesoma
Mercy
Clarity
On Chin?al?m?g? Once Living in Lincoln, Nebraska
Forgiveness
A Call's Dusk
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