In Gorgeous Display Okpara Ugochukwu Damian
The remarkable debut collection by a young Nigerian queer poet "here / i am not his image / & i envy it / i shut my eyes against what is left / the crackling softness of life / like communion / desire…
Specifikacia In Gorgeous Display Okpara Ugochukwu Damian
The remarkable debut collection by a young Nigerian queer poet "here / i am not his image / & i envy it / i shut my eyes against what is left / the crackling softness of life / like communion / desire is a marathon / a baton waiting for your grip / here / i am not running / neither is he / i sit with a man for the first time / & we talk about war . . ." - from "Beautiful Boy with Garlands around His Waist"In Gorgeous Display, by Nigerian poet Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, is a volume dedicated to the memory of those lost to anti-queer violence in Nigeria and elsewhere. In this first full-length collection of his work, Okpara examines queer male identity, effeminacy, and exile, offering meditations on desire and sanctuary, freedom and estrangement. Forty-three poems pierce familial relationships, safety, fear, and anxiety portrayed through the outward sign of hand