Your crib, my qibla /
Dzukogi, Saddiq M.,
Your crib, my qibla / Saddiq Dzukogi. - 1 online resource (x, 89 pages) - African Poetry Book . - African Poetry Book. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Your Crib -- Wineglass -- Song to a Birdwoman -- Internment -- Burial Sheet -- So Much Memory -- Scarf -- The Fruit Tree -- A Nimble Darkness -- He Didn't Get to Say Goodbye -- The House Held by Chaos -- Marshmallow -- Enigma -- Palms -- Shoes -- Measurable Weight -- The Gown -- This Web -- Shattered -- A Kind of Burden -- Learning about Constellations -- Elegy -- Quenching -- Back to Life -- Ba Shi, Ba Shi -- The Conceit of Shadows -- Strain -- Window -- Is Memory in Her Brother's Body? -- Dates Ribbons -- Revival -- Cave -- Sufficient -- Chibi -- Shahada -- Seismic -- The Breadth of a Butterfly -- Flower's Tenderness -- Memories by the Sea -- When He Says Your Name -- A Song in the Mouth of a Ghost -- Half-Light -- What Belongs to Him -- Aubade -- II. My Qibla-A Dialogue -- She Begins to Speak -- Journey Home -- Still-Life -- Janazah -- Observations -- Measuring the Length of Grief by the Length of a River -- Ummi -- Unexpressed Grief -- My Son Asks if I Miss My Daughter -- At Your Grave I'm Reminded of the Day You Were Born -- Where Pain Lives -- December -- Inner Songs -- Waterlog One Year After -- Notes
Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief.
9781496225788 (electronic bk.) 1496225783 (electronic bk.) 9781496225801 (pdf) 1496225805 (pdf) 9781496225795 (mobi) 1496225791 (mobi) (paperback) (paperback)
African poetry.
Poésie africaine.
African poetry.
Poetry
Electronic books.
poetry.
Poetry.
Poetry.
Poésie.
PR9387.9.D985 / Y68 2021
821/.92
Your crib, my qibla / Saddiq Dzukogi. - 1 online resource (x, 89 pages) - African Poetry Book . - African Poetry Book. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Your Crib -- Wineglass -- Song to a Birdwoman -- Internment -- Burial Sheet -- So Much Memory -- Scarf -- The Fruit Tree -- A Nimble Darkness -- He Didn't Get to Say Goodbye -- The House Held by Chaos -- Marshmallow -- Enigma -- Palms -- Shoes -- Measurable Weight -- The Gown -- This Web -- Shattered -- A Kind of Burden -- Learning about Constellations -- Elegy -- Quenching -- Back to Life -- Ba Shi, Ba Shi -- The Conceit of Shadows -- Strain -- Window -- Is Memory in Her Brother's Body? -- Dates Ribbons -- Revival -- Cave -- Sufficient -- Chibi -- Shahada -- Seismic -- The Breadth of a Butterfly -- Flower's Tenderness -- Memories by the Sea -- When He Says Your Name -- A Song in the Mouth of a Ghost -- Half-Light -- What Belongs to Him -- Aubade -- II. My Qibla-A Dialogue -- She Begins to Speak -- Journey Home -- Still-Life -- Janazah -- Observations -- Measuring the Length of Grief by the Length of a River -- Ummi -- Unexpressed Grief -- My Son Asks if I Miss My Daughter -- At Your Grave I'm Reminded of the Day You Were Born -- Where Pain Lives -- December -- Inner Songs -- Waterlog One Year After -- Notes
Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief.
9781496225788 (electronic bk.) 1496225783 (electronic bk.) 9781496225801 (pdf) 1496225805 (pdf) 9781496225795 (mobi) 1496225791 (mobi) (paperback) (paperback)
African poetry.
Poésie africaine.
African poetry.
Poetry
Electronic books.
poetry.
Poetry.
Poetry.
Poésie.
PR9387.9.D985 / Y68 2021
821/.92