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Origins of the Syma Species
About this book
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu’s collection is a brief history of where he came from: Syma, a neglected oil-producing region of Nigeria. After growing up with a single mother in the creek- and brook-marked region, and himself now a single parent, Oburumu examines single parenthood and how love defines family circles. Mixing music, religion, and political critique, Origins of the Syma Species evokes pasts and futures.
Inspired by the relative chaos found in the origin of things, Oburumu’s poems explore how the beauty of chaos binds us to our ancestral roots. In his poems Oburumu identifies with anyone who is a single parent or is dealing with the lonely trauma of a broken home. His poems instill hopefulness in a world that has the means to throw many into poverty and agony.
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu’s collection is a brief history of where he came from: Syma, a neglected oil-producing region of Nigeria. After growing up with a single mother in the creek- and brook-marked region, and himself now a single parent, Oburumu examines single parenthood and how love defines family circles. Mixing music, religion, and political critique, Origins of the Syma Species evokes pasts and futures.
Inspired by the relative chaos found in the origin of things, Oburumu’s poems explore how the beauty of chaos binds us to our ancestral roots. In his poems Oburumu identifies with anyone who is a single parent or is dealing with the lonely trauma of a broken home. His poems instill hopefulness in a world that has the means to throw many into poverty and agony.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Book 1
- Emerging
- Acts of a Green House
- Tunnel
- Parental Guidance for August Children Watching the Movie A Beautiful Mind
- My Father’s Last Hope for Water
- Illustrations Showing Figures of Speech Left on a Telephone Line Years after the Civil War
- Teaching Metaphysics, or Disciplinal Notes on Self-Culture
- The Eulogy & a Brief Description of Buckingham House
- Surrogacy
- Let There Be Lamplight
- Maud, or Letter to the White Egrets
- Paradise
- Syma Minor
- How to Love the Boats
- Book 2
- A Long Walk on Endlessness, the City of J. K. Anowe, the Decembrist
- Music, or Immortality
- In the Time of the Telephone
- Running
- How to Love a Girl—Austen College Recital for Pablo Neruda’s Genius
- & the I Is the Revolution
- The Origin
- Note 1—a Vision of Afghanistan
- Note 2—Syma
- Altar
- Notes
- About Tares Oburumu
- Series List