2000 Blacks: Poems - Paperback
2000 Blacks: Poems - Paperback
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by Ajibola Tolase (Author)
Finalist, 2025 Walcott Prize Winner, 2024 Cave Canem Poetry Prize Gold Medal, 2024 Florida Book Awards in Poetry Finalist, 2024 Julie Suk Award
2000 Blacks probes the complexity of economic and politically motivated migration from Africa, which has been referred to as "African Brain Drain." In the first sequence of poems, Ajibola Tolase explores Africa's history and encounters with the Western world, providing poetic insight into the economic instability precipitated by the transatlantic slave trade and exploitation of mineral resources. Moving inward, the second sequence plumbs the poet's complex relationship with his father, connecting his emotional and then physical absence with the consequences of community disintegration.Author Biography
Ajibola Tolase is a Nigerian poet and essayist. His writing has appeared in LitHub, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, and elsewhere. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has received a creative writing grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. He is the 2023-2024 Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Poetry at Colgate University and graduated from the MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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