Return to Top of Page
African Poetry Book Fund
Menu
  • Close
  • Contests
  • Books
  • Authors
  • Artists
  • Libraries
  • Portal
  • Blog
  • Publish with APBF
  • About APBF
  • Support Our Mission
  • African Poetry Digital Portal

Carnaval

included in Seven New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set

Tsitsi Ella Jaji

Slapering Hol Press

Cover art by Adejoke Tugbiyele

Purchase:

  • Slapering Hol Press

Poetry should lend itself to appreciation in isolation from the intertextual connections and cultural references. It should create a world that the reader can trust and get lost in. It must hold language captive and make it to its bidding. Jaji’s work demonstrates these abilities in abundance. Her poems, while clothed in English, bristle with the muscle of another tongue. There is an undercurrent of music that is more than poetry’s flexed musicality, and they possess the kind of regard that unsettles the eye and stills the heart.

Nii Ayikwei Parkes, from the preface
Carnaval by Tsitsi Jaji Download Image
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • RSS

© 2025 African Poetry Book Fund | All rights reserved.
110 Andrews Hall, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0334
Site Credits