Your Crib, My Qibla
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Your Crib, My Qibla

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. I. Your Crib
  8. Wineglass
  9. Song to a Birdwoman
  10. Internment
  11. Burial Sheet
  12. So Much Memory
  13. Scarf
  14. The Fruit Tree
  15. A Nimble Darkness
  16. He Didn’t Get to Say Goodbye
  17. The House Held by Chaos
  18. Marshmallow
  19. Enigma
  20. Palms
  21. Shoes
  22. Measurable Weight
  23. The Gown
  24. This Web
  25. Shattered
  26. A Kind of Burden
  27. Learning about Constellations
  28. Elegy
  29. Quenching
  30. Back to Life
  31. Ba Shi, Ba Shi
  32. The Conceit of Shadows
  33. Strain
  34. Window
  35. Is Memory in Her Brother’s Body?
  36. Dates
  37. Ribbons
  38. Revival
  39. Cave
  40. Sufficient
  41. Chibi
  42. Shahada
  43. Seismic
  44. The Breadth of a Butterfly
  45. Flower’s Tenderness
  46. Memories by the Sea
  47. When He Says Your Name
  48. A Song in the Mouth of a Ghost
  49. Half-Light
  50. What Belongs to Him
  51. Aubade
  52. II. My Qibla—A Dialogue
  53. She Begins to Speak
  54. Journey Home
  55. Still-Life
  56. Janazah
  57. Observations
  58. Measuring the Length of Grief by the Length of a River
  59. Ummi
  60. Unexpressed Grief
  61. My Son Asks if I Miss My Daughter
  62. At Your Grave I’m Reminded of the Day You Were Born
  63. Where Pain Lives
  64. December
  65. Inner Songs
  66. Waterlog
  67. One Year After
  68. Notes