The Geez Paperback / softback
by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Paperback / softback
Description
This stunning new collection from Nii Ayikwei Parkes features poems which embrace play, love and the ephemeral such as water bodies, blood/heritage, history and gossip; and a healthy dose of music and popular culture.
Concerned with the phase of life sometimes referred to as the midlife crisis, The Geez navigates the blurred lines between age and youth; the real and the imagined; what is seen and what is - what catches the gaze and what lies beneath.
Conceived in four sections, the collection moves from play, to love, to gossip and - finally - to explorations of the intersections of self and contemporary culture, including a segment inspired by blues legends, riffing on the myth of the crossroads, as well as an eleven-part love letter to the African diaspora - specifically African-Americans, whose sacrifices have contributed to the still-suppressed freedoms of Black folk globally.
A number of the poems in The Geez are written in a form called the Gimbal, which was developed by Nii - initially to work through his enduring grief at the loss of his father.
It evokes the workings of a gyroscope - spinning but stable -a state that echoes the liminality that anchors this collection.
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:72 pages
- Publisher:Peepal Tree Press Ltd
- Publication Date:15/10/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781845234775
Information
-
Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:72 pages
- Publisher:Peepal Tree Press Ltd
- Publication Date:15/10/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781845234775