Un-American
Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2020]
Format: Book
Description: 83 pages ; 24 cm.
"Poetry that investigates definitions of belonging in relation to migration, religion, language, and loss, tracing a family history between Nigeria and the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Wesleyan poetry.
Contents:
The life of a cell -- Naming ceremony -- Fajr -- The break in -- Salah -- Naturalized citizen -- Hymn -- Visiting prophets -- Un-american -- How to bring your children to America -- Testimony -- Alabama parable -- Testimony -- Eid al-adha -- My brother-in-law recites the takbir -- Testimony -- The leaving -- Family portrait -- Out of Africa -- The war on terror -- The widower -- Three-hundred girls -- How to saw a man in half -- Felling -- Naming my mother -- Iddah -- Hajj.
ISBN:
9780819579805
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LITERATURE Poetry Get | North Main | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references.