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James Yékú's second collection lingers on a poetics of elsewhere, as seen through poems that evoke various memories. In A Phial of Passing Memories, the poems offer shifting sceneries that record the everyday and chronicle vagrant seasons. This collection presents the vivid imagination of a keen mind documenting the passing rhythms of the abiding and the mundane, unfurling in a dance of elegance and lyrical beauty. The poems meander but remain anchored in particular geographies, from where they engage the varied cadences of the human condition. They blend the strange and the familiar into a meditation on the power of unforgetting, the enjambments and stoppages of journeys, and the nature of things themselves.

About the Author :
James Yékú is a tenured professor at the University of Kansas where he teaches African literature, and digital cultures. In addition to two academic monographs, Yékú is the author of Where The Baedeker Leads, and Ambivalent Encounters and Other Essays. A Phial of Passing Memories is his second poetry collection. Yékú resides in Lawrence, Kansas.

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"Whether portraying the smell of rain on dry earth or the tops of hills in the fall, we are in the presence of a poet able to see reality with a child's clarity and present it with a scholar's diction. The majority of Yékú's poems, however, are about arrivals and departures--including births and deaths--the self in exile, and life's elusive meaning. Occasionally celebratory but mostly elegiac, these poems are deeply existential in ways that make this reviewer think of Camus' 'Myth of Sisyphus.'" --H Nigel Thomas, author of The Voyage "In A Phial of Passing Memories, James Yékú captures the significant moments of life with arresting images that shed light on the human experience, bringing a measure of balance and confidence to his engagement with travels, nature and memory-making. Highly descriptive, this collection entertains, takes the reader on several journeys, and leads one to deep thought. It is a worthy addition to the new African diasporic literature." --Tanure Ojaide, Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte


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  • ISBN-13: 9781774151921
  • Publisher: Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
  • Publisher Imprint: Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1774151928
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jun 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 170 gr


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