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Book synopsis

Obaluaye is a poetry collection for the things that plague us. Obaluaye is a Yoruba god of infirmities and healing. 

The poems in this book talk of cradles and graves and every experience in-between, employing the duality attribute of the Orisha of epidemics. Each poem is an experience of health and death wrapped in a pod, of strength and flaws and a thirst for things that elude.

This collection explores the human cycle-the routine of life and death (and a possibility of restoration, rebirth). It seeks to understand the things that haunt us-our fears, our nightmares, quest for freedom, the weight of responsibilities, the paradox of hope, devotion and betrayals, failed states and the covid-19 pandemic. 

Obaluaye is a realization that "life is a cocktail of sweet, sour and insipid" and we are born to run this cycle, reaching for light, reaching for freedom...that ultimately leads to the grave.

Book details

Book category Books in German Belletristik Lyrik, Dramatik

• Full title: Obaluaye
• Author: JIDE BADMUS, MARTINS DEEP, Priscilla Celina Suarez
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80
• EAN: 9781953447487
• ISBN: 1953447481
• ID: 39335324
• Publisher: FlowerSong Press
• Weight: 127 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 5 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2022

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