Machine generated contents note: Wayfarer, You Have Seen Again. The Morning after the Protest -- Postcard from a War-Torn Village -- The Wind Skulks at My Window -- The Walk in May -- Nomads -- The Language of Guns -- Names -- On Their Evening Walk through an Alley -- The Old Way -- Ahamefula -- On Slicinga Mango One Midday -- Neighbours -- Spilling -- Coyote Down the Valley -- Tamarack Shade -- Blooms in June -- Family Story -- The Drawing -- Photos on Twitter -- The Woman Hunches over Her Walker -- Passerby (or I Am Not What You Think!) -- The Parkinluly -- The Raven -- Seagulls -- Kinship -- University Station -- At the Food Court in Southgate -- Body of Bones -- The Sea Is the Bridge -- The Sea Crows Its Circle of Stones -- Guitarist on the Landing -- Bus Stop -- In My Father's Shoes -- Origin -- A Word with an Edge -- Humming Nina Simone on the Train -- Good Love -- Summer Is Gone -- There's more -- Slush -- Compensation -- Wayfarer, You Have Seen Again.
Summary:
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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