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Your Crib, My Qibla

Saddiq Dzukogi

University of Nebraska Press | Paperback | ISBN: 978-1-4962-2577-1

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Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father’s pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of memory functions as a space of mourning, connecting the dead with the world of the living. Culminating in an imagined dialogue between the father and his deceased daughter in the intricate space of the family, Your Crib, My Qibla explores grief, the fleeting nature of healing, and the constant obsession of memory as a language to reach the dead.

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Contemporary African Poetry Series

Other Books In This Series:

The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn
When the Wanderers Come Home
Sacrament of Bodies
In A Language That You Know
‘mamaseko
Your Body Is War
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