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03460aam a2200409 i 4500 001 17AE2574253111EE91433F782CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230718010455 008 220710t20232023abc 000 p eng 020 $a 1772126802 020 $a 9781772126808 035 $a (OCoLC)1334883877 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d NLC $d BDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d TOH $d CDX $d UAB $d YDX $d PAU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lac 050 4 $a PR9387.9.U465 $b T54 2023 055 0 $a PR9387.9.U54 $b T54 2023 082 04 $a 821/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Umezurike, Uchechukwu Peter, $d 1975- $e author. 245 10 $a there's more : $b poems / $c Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike. 246 3 $a there is more : $b poems 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : $b University of Alberta Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 78 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Robert Kroetsch series 530 $a Issued also in electronic formats. 520 $a "In there's more, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike takes on the rich concepts of home and belonging: home lost and regained, home created with others and with the land, home as "anywhere we find something to love." Giving voice to the experiences of migrant and other marginalized citizens whose lives society tends to overlook, this collection challenges the oppressive systems that alienate us from one another and the land. Carefully built lyric meditations combine beauty and ugliness, engaging with violence, and displacement, while seeking to build kinship and celebrate imagination. Weaving domestic and international settings, salient observation and potent memory, Umezurike immerses the reader in rich, precise imagery and a community of voices, ideas, and recollections. there's more navigates immigrant life with a multifaceted awareness of joy, melancholia, loss, and hope."-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 00 $a Machine generated contents note: $t Wayfarer, You Have Seen Again. $t The Morning after the Protest -- $t Postcard from a War-Torn Village -- $t The Wind Skulks at My Window -- $t The Walk in May -- $t Nomads -- $t The Language of Guns -- $t Names -- $t On Their Evening Walk through an Alley -- $t The Old Way -- $t Ahamefula -- $t On Slicinga Mango One Midday -- $t Neighbours -- $t Spilling -- $t Coyote Down the Valley -- $t Tamarack Shade -- $t Blooms in June -- $t Family Story -- $t The Drawing -- $t Photos on Twitter -- $t The Woman Hunches over Her Walker -- $t Passerby (or I Am Not What You Think!) -- $t The Parkinluly -- $t The Raven -- $t Seagulls -- $t Kinship -- $t University Station -- $t At the Food Court in Southgate -- $t Body of Bones -- $t The Sea Is the Bridge -- $t The Sea Crows Its Circle of Stones -- $t Guitarist on the Landing -- $t Bus Stop -- $t In My Father's Shoes -- $t Origin -- $t A Word with an Edge -- $t Humming Nina Simone on the Train -- $t Good Love -- $t Summer Is Gone -- $t There's more -- $t Slush -- $t Compensation -- $t Wayfarer, You Have Seen Again. 650 0 $a Home $v Poetry. 650 0 $a Belonging (Social psychology) $v Poetry. 650 0 $a Immigrants $x Social conditions $v Poetry. 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423828 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Umezurike, Uchechukwu Peter, 1975- $t There's more. $d Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Press, 2023 $z 9781772127010 $z 9781772127010 $w (OCoLC)1348632228 830 0 $a Robert Kroetsch series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117024700.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=17AE2574253111EE91433F782CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search