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Author:   Adedayo Agarau
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.159kg
ISBN:  

9781531511616

ISBN 10:   1531511619
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   30 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Wind 1 i Ìbàdàn 5 Sọ́kà 7 We daydreamed of angels 9 Unfound 10 In which the morning after, a boy’s body had been dismembered 11 Empty 12 Ghost of a Dead Boy Writes from Sọ́kà 13 hoax 15 Salt water 17 Bámis· é 18 Night, prayer 20 Portent 22 ii Boys who never die 25 Entrance 28 Sonnet with Blood Everywhere 30 Fine boy writes a poem about anxiety 31 Doomsday 39 Arrival 41 Sonnet with severed limbs 45 Springfield 46 the abduction 48 It begins with gratitude & ends in rage 49 Baba omo 51 Two Boys, Their Mother & the Face 52 Disappearance 54 iii Before the dark 57 Ruin 58 Wishbone 59 The Dark 61 The fig 63 In which the horse saddles 64 In the dark 66 Pariboto riboto 67 Lilac 68 On joy 71 Brown 72 Migration 74 iv Prelude, Christmas 79 Ileya 80 Waiting for Her Son 81 These days of varnishing 82 Year of blood 85 Litany in which my father returns home safely at night 86 Glossary 89 Acknowledgments 95

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Evil is a question for God and beauty emerges despite what the politicians have ruined... In this harrowing collection, Agarau shapes and sifts through shadow until light treads steadily home.---Remica Bingham-Risher, author of Room Swept Home In a world that clamors for universality, Agarau looks within--invested in bringing to mind the beauty and brutality of his community, reminding us that humans are more alike than they are not.---D.M. Aderibigbe, author of How the End First Showed In the haunting horrorscape of these poems, crying bones usurp the streets; 'days of vanishing' darken into nights of wrenching anguish. 'Everywhere weed grows is a wide mouth eating children'.---Niyi Osundare, author of Songs from the Marketplace With exquisite sensitivity, rigorous measure, and steadfastness, Agarau writes a history in which the personal and lyrical necessarily run through its marrow.---aracelis girmay, author of the black maria

Author Information

ADEDAYO AGARAU is a Wallace Stegner Fellow '25, a Cave Canem Fellow and a 2024 Ruth Lilly-Rosenberg Fellowship finalist. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Agbowó Magazine: A Journal of African Literature and Art and a Poetry Reviews Editor for The Rumpus. He is the author of the chapbooks Origin of Name (African Poetry Book Fund, 2020) and The Arrival of Rain (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2020). For more information, visit www.adedayoagarau.com.

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