A native son meets a familiar deity in a foreign town, in books, in the faces and voices of strangers, on trains, in the histories that intersect with traumas and pleasures, in flirtations at a bank on Euston Road, in food, in contemplations of space, accents, missed connections, and police shootings in Lagos; all as part of one travel experience in the time of a global pandemic and upheaval. In E\u0300\u1e63u\u0300 at the Library & Other Poems, Tu\u0301b\u1ecd\u0300su\u0301n returns to his favourite tools of travelogue as a vehicle for the interrogation of memory through the limits of language.<\/p>\n
Tu\u0301b\u1ecd\u0300su\u0301n’s superpower is writing poems that stick in your head whether they are playful or serious. There is an astuteness to them that comes from a thoughtful observation of humans and of human nature. I recommend this collection over and over again.<\/p>\n
Chika Unigwe (Author of The Middle Daughter)<\/p>\n
K\u1ecd\u0301l\u00e1, offers his readers a worthwhile convergence of occasions. By colliding at a mythological crossroad of ideas, contentions, and feelings, the poems in this book serve as sacrificial leftovers for the living who hunger for essence. As one might expect from good poetry, this is a collection that gives words to the marginal.<\/p>\n
Ju\u0300m\u1ecd\u0300k\u1eb9\u0301 Verissimo (Author of I Am Memory)<\/p>\n
\u201cHe sits at the crossroads and confuses the wisest of mortals and gods. This deity represents the random, unpredictable factor in both divine and temporal affairs. E\u0300\u1e63u\u0300 is the dialectician of reality, a cautionary spirit who teaches that reality has more facets than one.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Wole \u1e62o\u0301yi\u0301nka\u0301<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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