The Gathering of Bastards by Romeo Oriogun

The Gathering of Bastards by Romeo Oriogun

2024 Nebraska Book Award Winner 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in Poetry 2024 Midwest Book Award Finalist in Poetry 2023 Julie Suk Award Winner Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry shortlist Like I knew, standing on the seashore, the hunger wracking a migrant’s body is movement. —from Romeo Oriogun’s “Migrant by the Sea” The Gathering of Bastards chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external. At the heart of these poems of vulnerability and sharp intelligence, the poet himself is the perpetual migrant embarked on forced journeys that take him across nations in West and North Africa, through Europe, and through American cities as he navigates the challenges of living through terror and loss and wrestles with the meaning of home.

“‘I walk alone, trying to find / the whisper of roads, trying to sieve through water / the haunting’ writes Romeo Oriogun in the book that is a journey, both through place and history, yes, but also the soulTo say that The Gathering of Bastards is an impressive collection is an understatement. It is one of soul-making indeed. Here ‘rain bears witness to bodies / thrown overboard slave ships,’ and the spell of verbal music bears wisdom. Oriogun is a kind of writer whose music will never stop. The kind that will survive the test of time. Bravo.”—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic

Romeo Oriogun was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and now lives in Iowa. He is the author of Sacrament of Bodies (Nebraska, 2020) and Nomad.

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ISBN 13	9781496234032
ISBN 10	1496234030
Title	The Gathering of Bastards
Author	Romeo Oriogun
Series	African Poetry Book
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Nebraska Press
Year published	2023-10-01
Number of pages	144
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