Death Does Not End at the Sea Adesina Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9781496244772

Name: Death Does Not End at the Sea Adesina Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9781496244772
Brand: University of Nebraska Press

University of Nebraska Press

Death Does not End at the SeaAuthor(s): Gbenga Adesina\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9781496244772, 978-1496244772\nSynopsis\nWinner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry\n\n In Gbenga Adesinas debut book of poems, a defiant and wise exploration of exile, voyages, and spiritual odysseys, we encounter figures embarking on journeys haunted by history-a son keeps dreaming he carried his dead father across the sea; a young Black father, tired of fear and breathlessness in America, travels with his son in search of the ghost of James Baldwin-to Paris, the south of France, Turkey, and Senegal to investigate his ancestral roots; and a group of immigrants on small boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea sing in order not to drown, in a stunning sequence that invokes the middle passage.\n\n In a lyrical voice at once new and surprisingly ancient, Adesinas Death Does Not End a.