The Naming
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The Naming

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eBook - ePub

The Naming

About this book

The Naming explores the movements, excesses, and extremes of existing as a postmodern individual, connecting these experiences to ancestry. The poems in this collection examine the various ways one remains tied to their ancestors by reimagining memories, history, homesteads, migration, and the intersections of the past, present, and possible futures. Through this exploration, the collection seeks to rebuild a world that doesn’t merely replicate realities but reinvents, enshrines, and restories them.

Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto’s poems offer a vital contribution to African cultural studies through their focus on Igbo heritage and ancestry.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. OUR FATHERS’ FATHERS
  10. A Call at Dawn
  11. Appraisal
  12. Unfurling
  13. Naming
  14. Marley’s Lyrics in Two Parts or Where Does It Hurt the Most?
  15. What I Said to God, Chukwu Ọ̀kịké
  16. The Story of Chinụalụmọgụ Not Looking for Anything with His Lazy Eyes
  17. Memorabilia
  18. What Chinụalụmọgụ Made with Clouds
  19. Once Upon a Time the Teeth
  20. The Navel
  21. Here
  22. The Actual Story About the Keloid on Chinụalụmọgụ’s Left Arm
  23. Colors
  24. The Gift
  25. Teaching My Nephew
  26. There Is a New Philosophy Now Called Kwechiri, to Persevere
  27. The Measure of Lost Things
  28. Itches
  29. The Robin in My Heart
  30. WORRIES
  31. Once Upon a Girl, a Place of History
  32. Chinụalụmọgụ Sits on His Balcony Pretending He Is a Parcel
  33. Worries
  34. The Teenager Who Became a Mother
  35. What They Say I Do Not Carry Well
  36. A Dead Son Does Not Answer the Phone
  37. The World Will Never Run Out of Bad News
  38. Ọzụbụlụ
  39. Úgà
  40. Monochrome Photos with Fragments in a Closet
  41. As Seeing Is a Kind of Brightness
  42. Okụzụ
  43. At the Darien Gap
  44. DEAR HOPE
  45. Finding
  46. ÌkwÌkwÍī, Sweet Night Bird, by the Lamp on a Dim-Lighted Street
  47. Ọbashị
  48. Confession
  49. Chinụalụmọgụ’s Therapist Kept Smiling at His Tricks
  50. Web
  51. A Page from Chinụalụmọgụ’s Diary
  52. Foregrounding
  53. Falling Oranges
  54. A Gift from Ọlisa Eloka, the One from Umuchu, to His Dearest Friend, Chinụalụmọgụ, Who Received It on the Afternoon of the Third Day After His Traditional Marriage to Mmesoma
  55. Mercy
  56. Clarity
  57. On Chinụalụmọgụ Once Living in Lincoln, Nebraska
  58. Forgiveness
  59. A Call’s Dusk
  60. Notes
  61. About Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto
  62. Series List