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- English
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Your Crib, My Qibla
About this book
Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Winner
Julie Suk Award Winner
Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlist
Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father’s pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of memory functions as a space of mourning, connecting the dead with the world of the living. Culminating in an imagined dialogue between the father and his deceased daughter in the intricate space of the family, Your Crib, My Qibla explores grief, the fleeting nature of healing, and the constant obsession of memory as a language to reach the dead.
Julie Suk Award Winner
Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlist
Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father’s pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of memory functions as a space of mourning, connecting the dead with the world of the living. Culminating in an imagined dialogue between the father and his deceased daughter in the intricate space of the family, Your Crib, My Qibla explores grief, the fleeting nature of healing, and the constant obsession of memory as a language to reach the dead.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I. Your Crib
- Wineglass
- Song to a Birdwoman
- Internment
- Burial Sheet
- So Much Memory
- Scarf
- The Fruit Tree
- A Nimble Darkness
- He Didn’t Get to Say Goodbye
- The House Held by Chaos
- Marshmallow
- Enigma
- Palms
- Shoes
- Measurable Weight
- The Gown
- This Web
- Shattered
- A Kind of Burden
- Learning about Constellations
- Elegy
- Quenching
- Back to Life
- Ba Shi, Ba Shi
- The Conceit of Shadows
- Strain
- Window
- Is Memory in Her Brother’s Body?
- Dates
- Ribbons
- Revival
- Cave
- Sufficient
- Chibi
- Shahada
- Seismic
- The Breadth of a Butterfly
- Flower’s Tenderness
- Memories by the Sea
- When He Says Your Name
- A Song in the Mouth of a Ghost
- Half-Light
- What Belongs to Him
- Aubade
- II. My Qibla—A Dialogue
- She Begins to Speak
- Journey Home
- Still-Life
- Janazah
- Observations
- Measuring the Length of Grief by the Length of a River
- Ummi
- Unexpressed Grief
- My Son Asks if I Miss My Daughter
- At Your Grave I’m Reminded of the Day You Were Born
- Where Pain Lives
- December
- Inner Songs
- Waterlog
- One Year After
- Notes