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Death Does Not End at the Sea
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Nautical journeys, exile and spiritual endeavors are front and center in this collection of work from Nigerian poet Gbenga Adesina.
Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
Winner of the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Finalist for the 2026 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection
Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry
In Gbenga Adesina's groundbreaking debut book of poems, a defiant and wise exploration of exile, voyages, and spiritual odysseys, we encounter figures embarking on journeys haunted by history--a son keeps dreaming he carried his dead father across the sea; a young Black f...
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