In there’s more, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike takes on the rich concepts of home and belonging: home lost and regained, home created with others and with the land, home as “anywhere we find something to love.” Giving voice to the experiences of migrant and other marginalized citizens whose lives society tends to overlook, this collection challenges the oppressive systems that alienate us from one another and the land. Carefully built lyric meditations combine beauty and ugliness, engaging with violence, and displacement, while seeking to build kinship and celebrate imagination. Weaving domestic and international settings, salient observation and potent memory, Umezurike immerses the reader in rich, precise imagery and a community of voices, ideas, and recollections. there’s more navigates immigrant life with a multifaceted awareness of joy, melancholia, loss, and hope.
Authors
- Pages
- 80
- Published in
- Edmonton, CA
- Series
- Robert Kroetsch Series
Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Reviews 2
- Title page 6
- Copyright page 7
- Dedication 8
- Contents 10
- Home is What the Tortoise Bears on Its Back 12
- The Morning after the Protest 13
- Postcard from a War-Torn Village 14
- The Wind Skulks at My Window 15
- The Walk in May 16
- Nomads 19
- The Language of Guns 20
- Names 21
- On Their Evening Walk through an Alley 24
- The Old Way 25
- Ahamefula 27
- On Slicing a Mango One Midday 29
- Neighbours 30
- Spilling 34
- Coyote Down the Valley 36
- Tamarack Shade 37
- Blooms in June 39
- Family Story 41
- The Drawing 42
- Photos on Twitter 44
- The Woman Hunches over Her Walker 46
- Passerby (or I AM NOT WHAT YOU THINK!) 47
- The Park in July 49
- The Raven 52
- Seagulls 55
- Kinship 57
- University Station 58
- At the Food Court in Southgate 61
- Body of Bones 62
- The Sea Is the Bridge 64
- The Sea Grows Its Circle of Stones 65
- Guitarist on the Landing 66
- Bus Stop 68
- In My Father’s Shoes 69
- Origin 73
- A Word with an Edge 74
- Humming Nina Simone on the Train 75
- Good Love 77
- Summer Is Gone 78
- there’s more 80
- Slush 82
- Compensation 86
- Wayfarer, You Have Seen Again 87
- Acknowledgements 88
