Smoking the Bible
Smoking the Bible An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holiness of grief through the…
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Smoking the Bible
An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holiness of grief through the startling, central practice of inhaling an immolated Bible.Smoking the Bible is an arresting collection of poems thick with feeling, shaped by Chris Abani's astounding command of form and metaphor. What we experience in this emotionally generous collection is a deep spiritual reckoning that draws on ancient African traditions of belief, and an intellectual vivacity drawing on various wisdom literatures and traditions. These poems reveal the personal story of two brothers--one elegizing the other--and the larger story of a man in exile: exile of geography, culture, and memory.
Abani illustrates the connective geography between harm, regret, and release, as poems move through landscapes of
Smoking the Bible
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Smoking Diaries
Smoking Permitted
The Vagina Bible
The Upholstery Bible
The Steampunk Bible
The Poisonwood Bible
The Audition Bible
The Bible Book