Your Crib My Qibla

Download or read book Your Crib, My Qibla written by Saddiq Dzukogi and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlist Julie Suk Award finalist Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry shortlist Your Crib, My Qibla 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, Your Crib, My Qibla explores grief, the fleeting nature of healing, and the constant obsession of memory as a language to reach the dead.