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Author Oriogun, Romeo, author.

Title Sacrament of bodies / Romeo Oriogun
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (63 pages)
Series African poetry book series
African poetry book series.
Contents Before Your Mama Knew Us as Light -- The Ritual of Giving a Body its Name -- Cathedral of a Broken Body -- Departure -- Kumbaya -- Saddest Night Alive -- Elegy for a Burnt Friend -- Coming Out -- How to Survive the Fire -- At Udi -- Denial -- The Guilt of Exile -- To the Man Who Mocked My Scared Body -- Boy -- Pink Club -- Before You Leave -- The Birthday -- A Viral Picture -- Satan Be Gone -- What We Do Not Want -- The Lost Chapter of the Bible Written After God Stopped Receiving the Smoke of Burnt Flesh -- Elegua -- The Queer Boy Remembers Colonization -- Sacrament of Bodies -- I Do Not Want My Body to Fly -- FM -- My Body Is No Miracle -- My Tinder Date Speak of Fruits -- A Reversed Epithalamium or What Didn't See the Light -- Heaven Is A Back Alley Without God -- Goodbye -- Exile -- Battle of the Rams -- Finding Home -- What the World Won't Show Us -- Everything Must Die -- On the 23rd Death Anniversary of my Father -- Prelude to Freedom -- Sermon of Pain -- Meeting My Mother through Death -- After a Blackout
Summary "Sacrament of Bodies examines queerness in Nigerian society, masculinity, and the place of memory in grief and survival"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Poems
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Subject African poetry (English)
African poetry (English)
Genre/Form poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Form Electronic book
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