{"product_id":"how-the-end-first-showed-9780299319847","title":"How the End First Showed","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrafting raw memories into restrained and compact verse, D.M. Aderibigbe traces the history of domestic and emotional abuse against women in his family. A witnessing son, grandson, nephew, and brother, he rejects the tradition of praise songs for the honoured father, refusing to offer tribute to men who dishonour their wives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the urgent, abrupt, incantational poems of D. M. Aderibigbe, an essential gesture is simile: the explicit, striving word 'like' recurs often. And in every poem Aderibigbe thinks in metaphor. In a world of difference, amid unique strokes of memory and abandonment, violence and love, that action of likeness attains spiritual force.\"\" - Robert Pinsky \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"A debut that electrifies and ignites beacons of much-needed understanding through even the darkest of days. These memorable poems twist and tumble across entire countries, while making maps of love and heartbreak. A brilliant beginning. Remember this name: Aderibigbe.\"\" - Aimee Nezhukumatathil, contest judge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBefore Songs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuestions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOlumo’s Face\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOedipus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew Hell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLove Story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLove\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEleos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Beginning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShapes of Our Future\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElegy for My Mothers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEaster Night\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLast Supper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePothos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBefore Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSongs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOde to My Father’s Childhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCity Boy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOde to Your First Cry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBirth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGaining Her Virginity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArt of Surviving\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Mother Remakes That Morning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHungry Man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTiredness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn Defense of Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBecoming My Mother’s Son\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRemaking the Day\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMirror\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHospital Window\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeparating from My Future\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ein Praise of Our Absent Father\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe Cleaner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ein Defense of Silence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo Be My Father\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMissing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePink\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChristmas Wishes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDancing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOde to His Absence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearning My History\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMatriculation Day\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinal Turn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter Song I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLast Call\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLast Forever\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOut of Water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMother, Again\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLunch Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThat Day, in the Lobby\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOur Legend\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArt of Unlearning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter Song II (Recap)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOde to My Grandmother’s Mouth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Fulfilled Childhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConfession of a Hungry Son\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProdigal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColors of My Childhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036916416855,"sku":"9780299319847","price":13.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-the-end-first-showed-9780299319847","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}