{"product_id":"your-crib-my-qibla-9781496225771","title":"Your Crib My Qibla","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDerek Walcott Prize for Poetry Winner\u003cbr\u003e Julie Suk Award Winner\u003cbr\u003e Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour Crib, My Qibla\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father’s pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of memory functions as a space of mourning, connecting the dead with the world of the living.Culminating in an imagined dialogue between the father and his deceased daughter in the intricate space of the family, \u003ci\u003eYour Crib, My Qibla\u003c\/i\u003e explores grief, the fleeting nature of healing, and the constant obsession of memory as a language to reach the dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A heartbreaking book of poems, \u003ci\u003eYour Crib, My Qibla\u003c\/i\u003e journeys through a father's grief after the loss of his beloved daughter. It takes admirable courage and striking language to seek solace after experiencing the unimaginable.\"—Rigoberto González, \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eYour Crib, My Qibla\u003c\/i\u003e is perfect for someone who needs to be held in the body until the 'mind feels like a mind.'\"—Amanda Auerbach, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dzukogi’s \u003ci\u003eYour Crib, My Qibla \u003c\/i\u003ewill join a list of collections by some of the most notable new African voices in the continent and in the diaspora, whose books have been published by the University of Nebraska Press.\"—Ernest O. Ogunyemi, \u003ci\u003eOpen Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In Saddiq Dzukogi’s \u003ci\u003eYour Crib, My Qibla\u003c\/i\u003e the loss of his daughter becomes the navigational pull to an interiority steeped in earthly grief and a desire for the unseen spaces of the afterlife. With incredible fidelity Dzukogi unravels a series of poems that wrestle with his loss and make meaning of our most unbearable moments. His is a song of embodied witness and recollection shaped by a voice skilled in the musicality of duality. These are poems that find their way to the reader’s depth and open a window to the otherworld.”—Matthew Shenoda, author of \u003ci\u003eTahrir Suite \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“‘Where your headstone was, I put a mirror, \/ each time I come to visit \/ I see that you live in my face,’ writes Saddiq Dzukogi in this heartbreaking, powerful collection of poems. A love song, an elegy, a book-long sequence, \u003ci\u003eYour Crib, My Qibla\u003c\/i\u003e is a parent’s epistles to a deceased child, an exploration of pain that continues to sing through pain (‘your songs endure \/\/ inside his bones. \/ They will nourish the loneliness— \/ yours and his.’). The mourning here is endless and yet transformative (‘Today Baha is not dead; she is six years old, \/ forcing marshmallows into his mouth. \/ Says I’m grown enough to feed you, Abba, \/ with the future’). Impossible not to be moved by this voice of a father who sees a dead child’s face everywhere (‘He presses a deep kiss on your grave, \/ on your forehead’), by this need to pull the dead out of the ground. This is a stunning, memorable book.”—Ilya Kaminsky, author of \u003ci\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDancing in Odessa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Saddiq Dzukogi’s \u003ci\u003eYour Crib, My Qibla\u003c\/i\u003e signals the arrival of a poet of assured craft, of courageous sentiment, and one who possesses a capacious facility with language and musicality. In this collection Dzukogi offers an elegy to innocence and to the false security of the living, and yet he demonstrates that the art of lamentation is as forceful an expression of hope as we have available to us. This is a remarkable introduction to a poet for our moment and time.”—Kwame Dawes author of \u003ci\u003eNebraska: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I. Your Crib\u003cbr\u003e Wineglass    \u003cbr\u003e Song to a Birdwoman    \u003cbr\u003e Internment    \u003cbr\u003e Burial Sheet    \u003cbr\u003e So Much Memory    \u003cbr\u003e Scarf    \u003cbr\u003e The Fruit Tree    \u003cbr\u003e A Nimble Darkness    \u003cbr\u003e He Didn’t Get to Say Goodbye    \u003cbr\u003e The House Held by Chaos    \u003cbr\u003e Marshmallow    \u003cbr\u003e Enigma    \u003cbr\u003e Palms    \u003cbr\u003e Shoes    \u003cbr\u003e Measurable Weight    \u003cbr\u003e The Gown    \u003cbr\u003e This Web    \u003cbr\u003e Shattered    \u003cbr\u003e A Kind of Burden    \u003cbr\u003e Learning about Constellations    \u003cbr\u003e Elegy    \u003cbr\u003e Quenching    \u003cbr\u003e Back to Life    \u003cbr\u003e Ba Shi, Ba Shi    \u003cbr\u003e The Conceit of Shadows    \u003cbr\u003e Strain    \u003cbr\u003e Window    \u003cbr\u003e Is Memory in Her Brother’s Body?     \u003cbr\u003e Dates    \u003cbr\u003e Ribbons    \u003cbr\u003e Revival    \u003cbr\u003e Cave    \u003cbr\u003e Sufficient    \u003cbr\u003e Chibi    \u003cbr\u003e Shahada    \u003cbr\u003e Seismic    \u003cbr\u003e The Breadth of a Butterfly    \u003cbr\u003e Flower’s Tenderness    \u003cbr\u003e Memories by the Sea    \u003cbr\u003e When He Says Your Name    \u003cbr\u003e A Song in the Mouth of a Ghost    \u003cbr\u003e Half-Light    \u003cbr\u003e What Belongs to Him    \u003cbr\u003e Aubade    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II. My Qibla—A Dialogue\u003cbr\u003e She Begins to Speak    \u003cbr\u003e Journey Home    \u003cbr\u003e Still-Life    \u003cbr\u003e Janazah    \u003cbr\u003e Observations    \u003cbr\u003e Measuring the Length of Grief by the Length of a River    \u003cbr\u003e Ummi    \u003cbr\u003e Unexpressed Grief    \u003cbr\u003e My Son Asks if I Miss My Daughter    \u003cbr\u003e At Your Grave I’m Reminded of the Day You Were Born    \u003cbr\u003e Where Pain Lives    \u003cbr\u003e December    \u003cbr\u003e Inner Songs    \u003cbr\u003e Waterlog    \u003cbr\u003e One Year After    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409235190103,"sku":"9781496225771","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496225771.jpg?v=1730506079","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/your-crib-my-qibla-9781496225771","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}