Otherness M Ayodele Heath 9780984100545 Books
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M. Ayodele Heath is a poet so fierce, so tender, so (rightly) angry, so generous of heart and spirit that I am 1) grateful, and 2) reminded again and again why I love poetry, why I have reason to love poetry because it can be like this! — Thomas Lux, author of God Particles In this electrifying first collection of poems, Ayodele Heath explores “otherness” -- Black otherness, Southern otherness, African otherness, his otherness which becomes our otherness and everyone's otherness -- with such heat and such heart and such precision and magic that the words fairly fly off the page. This is language swooning and falling in love with itself; “consonants sharp as fangs and clean/ as bone.” Here are poems “burning the pages in my eyes;” poems that are sharp, hip, sassy and smart as whips, taut as drums; poems full of beauty and horror and passion, unpredictable at every turn. This is the kind of poetry that keeps poetry alive. — Cecilia Woloch, author of Carpathia The words of M. Ayodele Heath are ‘a foam which knows no foreign shore.’ With his latest collection, Otherness, Heath bathes us in pools flooded with humankind’s purest mind. A golden tongued man teaching the tone deaf to dance, his beat filled heart pulsing arrhythmic codes to the misbegotten, one eye witnesses the gore and the other praises glory. Open this book and allow this high priest of prosody to reveal the secrets of okra seeds germinating beneath the djembe’s skin. — Robert Earl Price poet/ playwright M. Ayodele Heath’s Otherness is many-voiced, peopled with a rich and real throng of speakers clamoring to have their say. Heath seems part stage director, part mimic, part ventriloquist as he channels and divines and ultimately bears witness to this subject of “otherness,” the history and repercussions of race in America and abroad. His ear is outrageously good, his music rangy, unswerving, and often dizzyingly ambitious. This is a remarkable first collection. — Paula McLain, author of Less of Her, Stumble, Gorgeous and The Paris Wife
Otherness M Ayodele Heath 9780984100545 Books
Aydele Heath is very much a "modern" poet. His work follows its own internal form and is as much "spoken word" as poetry. Too often, practitioners of this form succumb to laziness, lack of discipline and create poems that may be dramatic but are neither thought provoking nor well-crafted. Mr. Heath is a rare example of a poet who can be powerful and thoughtful, producing poems that are both contemporary and worthy of being called poetry. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to see spoken word taken to another level and poetry revitalized with passion, humor and humanity.Product details
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Otherness M Ayodele Heath 9780984100545 Books Reviews
Bought it, loved it, and then bought one for my mom, cousin, and husband. My husband is not a poetry reader but has been talking about Things My Father Gave Me for weeks now. These poems read like beautiful stories.
Ayo and I come from the same city, Atlanta, but have different backgrounds. Nonetheless, his colorful and imaginative poems describe PERFECTLY the life in our hometown and beyond. His ability to describe and personify slices of our world is amazing. Certainly, even those not 'from around here' but who have visited or live here now will love the descriptions of the people and personalities found in the South.
Aydele Heath is very much a "modern" poet. His work follows its own internal form and is as much "spoken word" as poetry. Too often, practitioners of this form succumb to laziness, lack of discipline and create poems that may be dramatic but are neither thought provoking nor well-crafted. Mr. Heath is a rare example of a poet who can be powerful and thoughtful, producing poems that are both contemporary and worthy of being called poetry. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to see spoken word taken to another level and poetry revitalized with passion, humor and humanity.
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