Obaluaye

By: Jide Badmus, Martins Deep (Artist), Priscilla Celina Suarez (Cover Design by)

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Paperback | 1 August 2022

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80 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 0.48

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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.

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The poems of Jide Badmus have thrusts, intricacy, pathos. They have movement, juice, immediacy. No wonder the poems can snarl and also be tender. This poet is not afraid to imagine the ideal and confront injustice. The full force of intimate spaces-bodily and environmental-is not discounted. These sensuous and insightful poems take hold of you, involve you. In Obalºay©, Badmus has written poems that are like doors we can enter into. You need this book.

-Uche Nduka, author of SCISSORWORK

Jide Badmus stunning collection of raw and visceral poetry speaks volumes on the human condition. This is the kind of book that will be talked about for generations to come.

-Natalie Sierra, author of Charlie, Forever and Ever

A positive charge that grants access to the reader runs through Obalºay©. Jide Badmus brings fresh but keenly observed lines to the contemporary poetry coming out of Nigeria. Whether he is in the meditative vein or skirting erotic ecstasy, the controlled lyricism of this poet plunges us into the very pools of primal poetry.

-Tade Ipadeola, author of The Sahara Testaments

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