Full Description
In there's more, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike takes on the rich concepts of home and belonging: home lost and regained, home created with others and with the land, home as "anywhere we find something to love." Giving voice to the experiences of migrant and other marginalized citizens whose lives society tends to overlook, this collection challenges the oppressive systems that alienate us from one another and the land. Carefully built lyric meditations combine beauty and ugliness, engaging with violence, and displacement, while seeking to build kinship and celebrate imagination. Weaving domestic and international settings, salient observation and potent memory, Umezurike immerses the reader in rich, precise imagery and a community of voices, ideas, and recollections. there's more navigates immigrant life with a multifaceted awareness of joy, melancholia, loss, and hope.
Contents
I.
1. Home is what the tortoise bears on its back
2. The sea is the bridge
3. The sea grows its circle of stones
4. Wayfarer, you have seen again
5. The morning after the protest
6. On their evening walk through an alley
7. The woman hunches over her walker
8. The wind skulks at my window
9. Seagulls
10. The old way
11. Ahamefula
12. On slicing a mango one midday
13. Slush
14. Neighbours
15. Coyote down the valley
16. Tamarack Shade
II.
17. The walk in May
18. Blooms in June
19. The park in July
20. Summer is gone
III.
21. Bus stop
22. Origin
23. A word with an edge
24. Passerby (or, I AM NOT WHAT YOU THINK!*)
25. Names
IV.
26. The language of guns
27. Family story
28. The drawing
29. Postcard from a war-torn village
30. Photos on Twitter
31. there's more
32. Body of bones
33. In my father's shoes
V.
34. Kinship
35. University Station
36. At the food court in Southgate
37. Nomads
38. Guitarist on the landing
VI.
39. Humming Nina Simone on the train
40. Good love
41. Spilling
42. Compensation
