Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Otiono, Nduka, 1964-

Description

1. xix, 80 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. "Where the Baedeker Leads uncovers the many delicate layers that lie in the spaces between departures and arrivals, offering memories and stories. As a historically specific guidebook for travels, the Baedeker emerges as a cultural metaphor of navigating multiple geographies, even as it leads both to and away from the obvious meanings in the poems; but it is also a useful instrument that points to a recurrent theme in the collection, the idea of motion and displacement. Whether it\u0027s about journeys, personal transitions, or changes in the seasons, the reader is drawn to the personal experiences and social conditions that push people away from home to new landscapes, sights, and encounters that remind them of the times and place they have so painfully left behind. "Although the politics of my Nigerian homeland also animates several of the poems, their most abiding rumination is the enunciation of the constancy of change and the uncertain disruption of fixities. The nodes of human experiences become evident in poems that not only make legible the enduringly harsh realities of winter storms and frostbites, but also evoke the initial adversities of home that so traumatized you that you still feel the best gestures of love must be from afar.""--

Subject

1. Voyages and travels > Poetry
2. Emigration and immigration > Poetry
3. Change > Poetry
4. Voyages > Poésie
5. Émigration et immigration > Poésie
6. Changement (Philosophie) > Poésie
7. Change
8. Emigration and immigration
9. Manners and customs
10. Voyages and travels
11. Nigeria > Social life and customs > Poetry
12. Nigeria

Genre/Form

1. Poetry
2. poetry.
3. Poetry.
4. Poésie.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Poems.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Additional formats (note)

1. Issued also in electronic format.