Septet for the Luminous Ones

by fahima ife

Book Overview

A Black poet performs a shamanic soul retrieval of the seven-hundred-year-old diasporic black arts tradition

Continuing her search for a neotropical mythos, in this brilliant second collection poet fahima ife articulates various scenes of subduction. Spoken in quiet recognition and grounded in desire, Septet for the Luminous Ones imagines a lush soundscape textured in oblique spiritual fusion of the Ta no and Yoruba. Or, what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819500933
• ISBN13: 9780819500939
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.2"