Semiotics: Poems

The poems in Chekwube Danladi's debut collection ardently expose unnamed spaces of agency, proclaiming power and beauty through an unaccustomed yearning. Semiotics contends with the thresholds, eagerly transgressing the limits of material and spiritual realms in pursuit of personal and collective liberation. These poems negotiate a captive erotic condition and augur a hesitant yet lush embodiment, unearthing a Black femininity preoccupied with retrieving its unfettered freedom by any means. Activating a many-layered language that is at once political and delicate, Danladi conjures the unsightly and the sacred across poems that are vigilant, penetrating, and deeply evocative.

Author: Chekwube Danladi
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 09/15/2020
Series: Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.2lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780820358109