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Sanctificum / Chris Abani.
- Title
- Sanctificum / Chris Abani.
- Author
- Abani, Chris
- Publication
- Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR9387.9.A23 S26 2010 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe
- Description
- xi, 105 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This is Abani's fifth collection of poetry. Utilizing religious ritual, the Nigerian Igbo language, and reggae rhythms, Abani creates a post-racial, liturgical love song that covers the globe from Abuja to Los Angeles and explores the charged intersections of atrocity and love, politics and religion, loss and renewal.
- Subject
- English poetry > 21st century
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Om -- Sacrament -- Divination -- A letter to Robert Pinsky : -- Revenant -- Elephants -- Dear Derek Walcott, Patron Saint of shipwrecked poets : -- Descent -- Dear Kimiko Hahn : -- Processional -- God's country -- Pilgrimage -- Benediction -- Histories -- Dear Yusef Komunyakaa : -- Dew -- Nomad -- Renewal.
- ISBN
- 9781556593161 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1556593163 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009043650
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library