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The Junta of Happenstance

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by Tolu Oloruntoba
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Availability:In StockContributor:Tolu OloruntobaPublish date:5/1/2021Pages:80
Language:EnglishPublisher:AnstrutherISBN-13:9781989287729ISBN-10:1989287727UPC:9781989287729Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:African, Subjects & Themes, AmericanSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCF8X5VHEQ
Personal, primordial, and pulsing with syncopated language, Tolu Oloruntoba's poetic debut, The Junta of Happenstance, is a compendium of dis-ease. This includes disease in the traditional sense, as informed by the poet's time as a physician, and dis-ease as a primer for family dysfunction, the (im)migrant experience, and urban / corporate anxiety. In the face of struggles against social injustice, Oloruntoba navigates the contemporary moment with empathy and intelligence, finding beauty in chaos, and strength in suffering. The Junta of Happenstance is an important and assured debut.
Language:EnglishPublisher:AnstrutherISBN-13:9781989287729ISBN-10:1989287727UPC:9781989287729Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:African, Subjects & Themes, AmericanSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCF8X5VHEQ
Tolu Oloruntoba is the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry winning The Junta of Happenstance and Anstruther Press chapbook Manubrium. His poetry has appeared in Pleiades, Columbia Journal, Entropy, and other publications, and his short fiction has appeared in translation in Dansk PEN Magazine. He founded Klorofyl, a magazine of literary and graphic art, and practiced medicine before his current work managing projects for health authorities in British Columbia. After a somewhat itinerant life in Nigeria and the United States, he emigrated to the Greater Vancouver Area, where he lives with his family.
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