Ebook {Epub PDF} Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun

 · Romeo Oriogun's Sacrament of Bodies. From @BernardineEvari on Twitter. The first poem in Sacrament of Bodies, the debut collection of poetry by the Nigerian poet Romeo Oriogun, was written in February It was provoked by the lynching of a gay man, Olumide Akinnifesi, in Ondo town, southwestern Nigeria, hours away from where Oriogun worked as a road traffic officer. ARC courtesy of NetGalley Sacrament of Bodies is Romeo Oriogun's painful, delicate and gorgeous manifesto of what it means to be bisexual in a country where you are not accepted. Each poem builds on the last, touching on the intricate battle between self love and familial duty, societal expectations and sexual curiosity, the sand that loves the sea but can only hold its castoffs, the sea that loves the sand /5(24).  · In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where everything is designed to prevent such restoration. With honesty, precision, tenderness of detail, and a light touch, Oriogun.

In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where everything is designed to prevent such bltadwin.ru honesty, precision, tenderness of detail, and a light touch, Oriogun explores grief and how the body finds survival through migration. Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun University of Nebraska Press, , 63 pp., $, ISBN "When we end our silence," bell hooks tells us, "when we speak in a liberated voice, our words connect us with anyone, anywhere who lives in silence." This liberatory instinct is at the heart of Romeo Oriogun's debut collection [ ]. Romeo Oriogun's debut poetry collection Sacrament of Bodies is still some 12 days away from its March 1 publication date but the anticipation is reaching fever-pitch. Sacrament of Bodies interrogates queerness, masculinity, and Nigerianness, and is a meditation on pain, love, joy, and how we overcome.. The book has some big fans in Ilya Kaminsky and Ellen Bass.

Romeo Oriogun’s poetry collection Sacraments of Bodies, published by the University of Nebraska Press, is set to make its appearance on March 1, Romeo Oriogun first came to the attention of many followers of the African literary community when he won the Brunel International African Poetry Prize in The judges at the time called him a “hugely talented, outstanding, and urgent new voice in African poetry.”. Sacrament of Bodies interrogates queerness, masculinity, and Nigerianness, and is a meditation on pain, love, joy, and how we overcome. The book has some big fans in Ilya Kaminsky and Ellen Bass. “Sacrament of Bodies is a very special book,” Kaminsky writes in his blurb. “Romeo Oriogun has developed a style that is both personal and mythical, because these poems are sensual and spiritual at once, because they give us both. In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where everything is designed to prevent such restoration. With honesty, precision, tenderness of detail, and a light touch, Oriogun.