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Smoking the Bible
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English
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An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration...
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An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holiness of grief through the startling, central practice of inhaling an immolated Bible.
Smoking the Bible is an arresting collection of poems thick with feeling, shaped by Chris Abani's astounding command of form and metaphor. These poems reveal the personal story of two brothers-one elegizing the other-and the larger story of a man in exile: exile of geography, culture, and memory. What we experience in this emotionally generous collection is a deep spiritual reckoning that draws on ancient African traditions of belief, and an intellectual vivacity drawing on various wisdom literatures and traditions. Abani illustrates the connective geography between harm, regret, and release, as poems move through landscapes of Nigeria, the Midwestern United States, adulthood, and childhood. One has the sense of entering a whole and complex world of the imagination in reading this collection. There is no artifice here, no affectation; and these poems are a study in the very grace of image.
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Full name
Smoking the Bible
Author
Chris Abani
Language
English
English
Binding
Book - Paperback
Date of issue
2022
Number of pages
96
EAN
9781556596285
ISBN
1556596286
Libristo code
36680587
Publishers
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Weight
134
Dimensions
229 x 152 x 8
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