Septet for the Luminous Ones
Format: Hardback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9780819500939
Pub Date: 25 Apr 2024
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Description:
A Black poet performs a shamanic soul retrieval of the seven-hundred-year-old diasporic Black arts traditionContinuing 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 Taíno and Yoruba. Or, what it sounded like coming together for the first time, and what it sounds like ever after, breathless, diaspora calling.