Nomad
This poetry collection is built around movement and exile, tracing the pain of leaving home and the instincts needed to survive elsewhere. As it moves across West Africa, questions of history, memory, the body, and borders keep overlapping.
Work Information
Crossing borders becomes a way of searching for the place that has been lost.
"Nomad" is Romeo Oriogun's second poetry collection, tracing a journey that moves through Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana, Senegal, and Côte d'Ivoire. In restrained language, it explores the unease and freedom of a body that has left home, along with the weight of history and the resilience of lived experience.
Review Summaries
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Its wide reach across movement, exile, and colonial memory is widely appreciated, along with the way it gathers desert and travel imagery into a single poetic arc. Personal experience is tied to historical injury, leaving a lasting aftertaste.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Griots Lounge Nigeria
- Published
- 2021-12-20
- Pages
- 124 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 0.79 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789785756739
- ISBN-10
- 9785756734
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction
The Lambda Award-shortlisted poet’s debut, Sacrament of Bodies , was an epochal moment in Nigerian poetry, exploring masculinity and queerness. His follow-up widens his range, taking in exile, history, slavery, colonialism and postcolonialism, and contemporary politics of identity. Its narrative of seeing and surviving the world takes us through the West African countries of Benin Republic, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana, Senegal, and Côte d’Ivoire. Romeo Oriogun , a Nigerian poet and essayist, is the author of Sacrament of Bodies (University of Nebraska) and three chapbooks. He is the winner of the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. A finalist for the Lambda Prize for poetry and for The Future Awards African Prize for Literature, he has received fellowships and support from Ebedi International Writers Residency, Harvard University, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Oregon Institute for Creative Research, and the IIE- Artist Protection Fund. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Havard Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Narrative Magazine, The Common , and others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, his poems have been translated into several languages.