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.
| ISBN: | 9780822967309 |
| Publication date: | 3rd September 2024 |
| Author: | Ajibola Tolase |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 80 pages |
| Series: | Pitt Poetry Series |
| Genres: |
Poetry Narrative theme: Sense of place |
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.
2000 Blacks features in the following genres: Poetry, Narrative theme: Sense of place
2000 Blacks is available in Paperback
2000 Blacks was written by Ajibola Tolase and published by University of Pittsburgh Press
2000 Blacks has 80 pages
Yes it is part of Pitt Poetry Series series
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