Things We Lost in the Fire

Ijeoma Umbebinyuo

• Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9789882371613

This pocket-sized paperback is one of the thirtytitles published for 2019Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2019is "Speech and Silence". From 19–24November 2019, 30 invited poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme "Speech and Silence." Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.Poets include Ana Luísa Amaral (Portugal), Maxim Amelin (Russia), Renato Sandoval Bacigalupo (Peru), Jen Bervin (USA), Ana Blandiana (Romania), Tamim Al-Barghouti (Palestine), Abbas Beydoun (Lebanon), Mi?osz Biedrzycki (Poland), Derek Chung (Hong Kong), Louise Dupré (Canada), Forrest Gander (USA), Hwang Yu Won (South Korea), Maozi (PRC), Mathura (Estonia), Sergio Raimondi (Argentina), Ana Ristovi? (Serbia), K. Satchidanandan (India), Martin Solotruk (Slovakia), Aleš Šteger (Slovenia), Maria Stepanova (Russia), Tóth Krisztina (Hungary), Ijeoma Umebinyuo (Nigeria), Anastassis Vistonitis (Greece), Jan Wagner (Germany), Ernest Wichner (Germany), Yang Chia-Hsien (Taiwan), Yasuhiro Yotsumoto (Japan), Yu Youyou (PRC), Zheng Xiaoqiong (PRC), and Zhou Yunpeng (PRC).

Table of contents

• Full Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Confessions
• “Where does depression take you?”
• The Delicate Acts of Survival
• “how quiet can we make this woman?”
• “Tell me, at night”
• “Nne’m, my mother”
• Nneka
• “A God as woman as me”
• Brave
• Phoenix
• “Remember”
• Survival
• Conversations with Broken Girls
• “twice broken”
• “The woman”
• “Nobody warned you”
• “Your son does not know”
• Nne
• Cruel
• “Bless the daughters who sat”
• “Your mother was your first mirror”
• “There are many ways to love yourself ”
• Five Languages
• Iya Femi
• Yellow Fever
• Trigger
• Scarred
• Splinter
• “Pardon me for breaking myself in half for you”
• Things We Lost in the Fire