OBALÚAYÉ - Badmus, Jide

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Résumé :
Obaluaye is a poetry collection for the things that plague us. Obaluaye is a Yoruba god of infirmities and healing. The poems in this book talk of cradles and graves and every experience in-between, employing the duality attribute of the Orisha of epidemics. Each poem is an experience of health and death wrapped in a pod, of strength and flaws and a thirst for things that elude. This collection explores the human cycle-the routine of life and death (and a possibility of restoration, rebirth). It seeks to understand the things that haunt us-our fears, our nightmares, quest for freedom, the weight of responsibilities, the paradox of hope, devotion and betrayals, failed states and the covid-19 pandemic. Obaluaye is a realization that life is a cocktail of sweet, sour and insipid and we are born to run this cycle, reaching for light, reaching for freedom...that ultimately leads to the grave.

Biographie:
Jide Badmus is an engineer, a poet inspired by beauty and destruction; he believes that things in ruins were once beautiful.Jide is the author of There is a Storm in my Head; Scripture; Paradox of Little Fires; Paper Planes in the Rain (co-authored with Pamilerin Jacob); Silk Psalms (with Alozor Michael); and Anatomy of the Sun (and everything beneath) co-authored with Tukur Loba Ridwan. He has a Pushcart Prize nomination.Badmus has curated and edited several anthologies such as Vowels Under Duress; Coffee; Today, I Choose Joy; and How to Fall in Love.He is the founder of INKspiredNG, Poetry Editor for Con-scio Magazine, and sits on the board of advisors for Libretto Magazine. He has a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from University of Ilorin, Nigeria and a Master's in Information Technology Management from Binary University, Malaysia. He is married to Linda and they are blessed with two daughters, Nora and Nicole. He writes from Lagos, Nigeria.

Sommaire:
Obaluaye is a poetry collection for the things that plague us. Obaluaye is a Yoruba god of infirmities and healing. The poems in this book talk of cradles and graves and every experience in-between, employing the duality attribute of the Orisha of epidemics. Each poem is an experience of health and death wrapped in a pod, of strength and flaws and a thirst for things that elude. This collection explores the human cycle-the routine of life and death (and a possibility of restoration, rebirth). It seeks to understand the things that haunt us-our fears, our nightmares, quest for freedom, the weight of responsibilities, the paradox of hope, devotion and betrayals, failed states and the covid-19 pandemic. Obaluaye is a realization that life is a cocktail of sweet, sour and insipid and we are born to run this cycle, reaching for light, reaching for freedom...that ultimately leads to the grave....