In Gorgeous Display
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In Gorgeous Display

  1. 76 pages
  2. English
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In Gorgeous Display

About this book

One of Book Riot's Must-Have New Poetry for Fall 2023 The remarkable debut collection by a young Nigerian queer poet. "here / i am not his image / & i envy it / i shut my eyes against what is left / the crackling softness of life / like communion / desire is a marathon / a baton waiting for your grip / here / i am not running / neither is he / i sit with a man for the first time / & we talk about war..."
ā€”FROM "BEAUTIFUL BOY WITH GARLANDS AROUND HIS WAIST" In Gorgeous Display, by Nigerian poet Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, is a volume dedicated to the memory of those lost to anti-queer violence in Nigeria and elsewhere. In this first full-length collecĀ­tion of his work, Okpara examines queer male identity, effeminacy, and exile, offering meditations on desire and sanctuary, freedom and estrangement. Forty-three poems pierce familial relationĀ­ships, safety, fear, and anxiety portrayed through the outward sign of hand tremors, queer lynching, survival, hope, the emptiness of exile, and reclamation of the self. Embracing the ephemeral and spiritual nature of physical beauty, Okpara also reveals the scars of queer displacement, illuminatĀ­ing the ways that leaving home is never quite the utopia one hopes for and how often the ache of abandonment can haunt a life lived in the present.

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Information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781531504601
eBook ISBN
9781531504625
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Beautiful Boy with Garlands Around His Waist
  8. What is Left of Us is Made Broken and Shy
  9. In Which i Sit with My Father on a Threshold
  10. We Are no Longer at the Threshold
  11. In Which i Sit with My Mother
  12. Portrait of a Boy in Gorgeous Display
  13. We Recognize this Space and All the Promises it Never Held
  14. Nervous Wound
  15. Just in Case i Donā€™t Come Home Tonight
  16. Logan Theatre
  17. Hand
  18. To the Manual Parts of my Upper Limbs Distal to My Wrists
  19. I Prefer the Safety of these Hands
  20. If i Die, what Would My Family Write as My Biography?
  21. Portrait of a Boy with Hands Helpless
  22. Boy Meets Boy & This isnā€™t about Love
  23. What i Know about Beauty
  24. Duplex
  25. Orbit
  26. The Face of Memory Glitters with Hope
  27. Notes on Desire
  28. Host
  29. Diary Entry
  30. Leaving Sad Things Behind
  31. What Escape These Hands Can Tell
  32. That Night
  33. Self-Portrait as White Spaces
  34. In the History of Belonging
  35. All My Friends Are Terrible Photographers
  36. At a Queer Safe Space in Lagos
  37. The Emptiness Born Out of Escape
  38. Biafra War Song
  39. Ars Exsilii
  40. Peace Lilies
  41. At the Airport Terminal
  42. Joy for Yet Another Night
  43. Exile Leaves You at the Foot of Desire
  44. A Ritual about Home Weā€™ve Come to Know
  45. Survival
  46. I Practice to Get Hold of Myself
  47. I Have Been Thinking about Worship
  48. Prodigal Son
  49. A Ruined Candle Wax Still Breathes Itself into Shape
  50. Acknowledgments
  51. About the Author