{"product_id":"saltwater-demands-a-psalm-poems","title":"Saltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSaltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eKweku Abimbola\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781644452271\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGraywolf Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Ghana's Akan tradition, on the eighth day of life a child is named according to the day of the week on which they were born. This marks their true birth. In Kweku Abimbola's rhapsodic debut, the intimacy of this practice yields an intricately layered poetics of time and body based in Black possibility, ancestry, and joy. While odes and praise songs celebrate rituals of self- and collective-care--of durags, stank faces, and dance--Abimbola's elegies imagine alternate lives and afterlives for those slain by police, returning to naming as a means of rebirth and reconnection following the lost understanding of time and space that accompanies Black death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaltwater Demands a Psalm\u003c\/i\u003e creates a cosmology in search of Black eternity governed by Adinkra symbols--pictographs central to Ghanaian language and culture in their proverbial meanings--and rooted in units of time created from the rhythms of Black life.These poems groove, remix, and recenter African language and spiritual practice to rejoice in liberation's struggles and triumphs. Abimbola's poetry invokes the ecstasy and sorrow of saying the names of the departed, of seeing and being seen, of being called and calling back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Saltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems | Kweku Abimbola | Paperback | 9781644452271 | Used: Very Good | Poetry 1653499","offer_id":50777755615490,"sku":"1653499","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61Jcn4PfIVL.jpg?v=1792167182","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/saltwater-demands-a-psalm-poems","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}