Sanctificum /
Abani, Chris.
Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press,
[2010]
This is Abani's fifth collection of poetry. Utilizing religious ritual, the Nigerian Igbo language, and reggae rhythms, Abani creates a post-racial, liturgical love song that covers the globe from Abuja to Los Angeles and explores the charged intersections of atrocity and love, politics and religion, loss and renewal.
This is Abani's fifth collection of poetry. Utilizing religious ritual, the Nigerian Igbo language, and reggae rhythms, Abani creates a post-racial, liturgical love song that covers the globe from Abuja to Los Angeles and explores the charged intersections of atrocity and love, politics and religion, loss and renewal.
Om -- Sacrament -- Divination -- A letter to Robert Pinsky : -- Revenant -- Elephants -- Dear Derek Walcott, Patron Saint of shipwrecked poets : -- Descent -- Dear Kimiko Hahn : -- Processional -- God's country -- Pilgrimage -- Benediction -- Histories -- Dear Yusef Komunyakaa : -- Dew -- Nomad -- Renewal.
English poetry