Strange Beach [electronic resource]
Oluwaseun Olayiwola2025
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Strange Beach is the debut collection from poet and choreographer Oluwaseun
Olayiwola. Intimate and erotic, ecological and philosophical, the poems
in Strange Beach illuminate the body as a porous landscape across which
existential dramas, filial fractures, and sexual reckonings occur. The
collection ventures across the same 'Atlantic Ocean' as Claudia Rankine's
'Citizen', which is the same 'Atlantic Ocean' in Lowell's 'Life Studies', to
reveal a queer consciousness deeply steeped in poetic traditions of nuanced
confession and moving abstraction. Strange Beach is geological in its
accumulation of images, emotions and landscapes that stack, revolve and eschew.
The resulting work transmutes messages to the mind of the reader with a feeling
of cosmic intuitiveness, as emotion and intellect grapple and become forged. 'No
one can follow you here / not having to become something else', observes one
speaker, in this collection that reimagines how we love, grow, travel, and most
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Main title:
Strange Beach [electronic resource] / Oluwaseun Olayiwola
Author:
Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (96 pages, 133495.0 Bytes)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781804271568
Language:
English
BRN:
531748
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |