The Junta of Happenstance
『The Junta of Happenstance』は、政治的な出来事、移民経験、偶然性を断片的なイメージでつなぐデビュー詩集。静かな怒りと皮肉を含みながら、現代の不安を鋭く可視化する。
作品情報
政治と偶然が交差する、鋭い手触りの詩集。
医師としての経験を背景に、権力の不合理さや家族、都市生活の緊張を短い詩篇に凝縮したデビュー作。断片化された構成が、社会的な不安と私的な感覚を行き来させる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Anstruther Books
- 発売日
- 2021-05-01
- ページ数
- 103ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.97 x 0.76 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781989287729
- ISBN-10
- 1989287727
- 価格
- 4051 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/African
Personal, primordial, and pulsing with syncopated language, Tolu Oloruntoba's poetic debut, The Junta of Happenstance, is a compendium of dis-ease. This includes disease in the traditional sense, as informed by the poet's time as a physician, and dis-ease as a primer for family dysfunction, the (im)migrant experience, and urban / corporate anxiety. In the face of struggles against social injustice, Oloruntoba navigates the contemporary moment with empathy and intelligence, finding beauty in chaos, and strength in suffering. The Junta of Happenstance is an important and assured debut.
Tolu Oloruntoba is the author of the Anstruther Press chapbook Manubrium. His poetry has appeared in Pleiades, Columbia Journal, Entropy, and other publications, and his short fiction has appeared in translation in Dansk PEN Magazine. He founded Klorofyl, a magazine of literary and graphic art, and practiced medicine before his current work managing projects for health authorities in British Columbia. After a somewhat itinerant life in Nigeria and the United States, he emigrated to the Greater Vancouver Area, where he lives with his family.
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