The actual
Ellams, Inua2020
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The Actual is a symphony of personal and political fury sometimes probing delicately, sometimes burning with raw energy. In 55 poems that swerve and crackle with a rare music, Inua Ellams unleashes a full-throated assault on empire and its legacies of racism, injustice and toxic masculinity. Written on the author's phone, in transit, between meetings, before falling asleep and just after waking, this is poetry as polemic, as an act of resistance, but also as dream-vision. At its heart, this book confronts the absolutism and 'foolish machismo' of hero culture from Perseus to Trump, from Batman to Boko Haram. Through the thick gauze of history, these breathtaking poems look the world square in the face and ask, 'What the actual?'
Main title:
The actual / Inua Ellams.
Author:
Ellams, Inua, author
Imprint:
London : Penned in the Margins, 2020.
Collation:
84 pages
ISBN:
9781908058782 (pbk)1908058781 (pbk)
Dewey class:
821.92
Language:
English
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BRN:
614473
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