2000 Blacks: Poems - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822967309ISBN-10:822967308UPC:9780822967309Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, African, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, PlacesSize:8.98 x 6.06 x 0.27 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SCMFCNTXRM
2000 Blacks probes the complexity of economic and politically motivated migration from Africa, which has been referred to as "African Brain Drain." In the first sequence of poems, Ajibola Tolase explores Africa's history and encounters with the Western world, providing poetic insight into the economic instability precipitated by the transatlantic slave trade and exploitation of mineral resources. Moving inward, the second sequence plumbs the poet's complex relationship with his father, connecting his emotional and then physical absence with the consequences of community disintegration.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822967309ISBN-10:822967308UPC:9780822967309Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, African, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, PlacesSize:8.98 x 6.06 x 0.27 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SCMFCNTXRM
Ajibola Tolase is a Nigerian poet and essayist. His writing has appeared in LitHub, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, and elsewhere. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has received a creative writing grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. He is the 2023-2024 Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Poetry at Colgate University and graduated from the MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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