Bøger af Uche Nduka

Uche Nduka returns with an explosive new collections of poems based on the Pacific Northwest during the covid pandemic.Sheltering with his wife and child on Washington State's Bainbridge Island during a global pandemic, the poet as political surrealist considers themes of isolation and connection in the most personal terms using his unique brand of explosive abstraction to carve out a space to explore the meaning of home, family, and diaspora.Poetry. Family & Relationships. African & African American Studies."In BAINBRIDGE ISLAND NOTEBOOK, the measure of pleasure is found in the social fact of song. Sparkling with erotic charges and moral conundrums, Uche Nduka's detonates novelty in the name of love. His short lines create the rhythmic force of news that William Carlos Williams celebrated. This is poetry new, brave, and boisterous."-Charles Bernstein

FRETWIRE is an attempt to understand the shifting meaning of poetry. Its critical pace, contortions, grace, quiet revolution. These things that grow out of varied enthusiasms, refusals, and shape-shifting poems. Among other phenomena, for me, poetry has turned out to be good in making connections with other people. Despite everything, there is beauty. The mixture of anatomical intimacy and spiritual/psychological intimacy is my ideal in this book. In FRETWIRE, I have made peace with displacement and rootedness.Uche Nduka is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and songwriter. He is the author of EEL ON REEF (2007), IJELE (2012), NINE EAST (2013), FACING YOU (2020) and 8 other books of poetry. His essays on travel, poetics, consciousness, music and mortality can be found in books and online. He teaches Literature at CUNY (Queens College) and lives in New York City

From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism.

A truly exciting American debut for a Nigerian writer on Chris Abani's new poetry imprint.