{"product_id":"obalzayzs-9781953447487","title":"Obalúayé","description":"\u003cp\u003eObaluaye is a poetry collection for the things that plague us. Obaluaye is a Yoruba god of infirmities and healing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in this book talk of cradles and graves and every experience in-between, employing the duality attribute of the Orisha of epidemics. Each poem is an experience of health and death wrapped in a pod, of strength and flaws and a thirst for things that elude.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection explores the human cycle-the routine of life and death (and a possibility of restoration, rebirth). It seeks to understand the things that haunt us-our fears, our nightmares, quest for freedom, the weight of responsibilities, the paradox of hope, devotion and betrayals, failed states and the covid-19 pandemic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObaluaye is a realization that \"life is a cocktail of sweet, sour and insipid\" and we are born to run this cycle, reaching for light, reaching for freedom...that ultimately leads to the grave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Flowersong Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50864738271506,"sku":"9781953447487","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fed1d319-15c4-403c-91dc-25bac999ae2e.jpg?v=1737660542","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/obalzayzs-9781953447487","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}