{"product_id":"strange-beach-poems-9781593767761","title":"Strange Beach: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA debut poetry collection wrangling the various selves we hold and perform--across oceans and within relationships--told through a queer, Nigerian-American lens\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt times surreal, at times philosophical, the poems of \u003ci\u003eStrange Beach\u003c\/i\u003e demarcate a fiercely interior voice inside of queer Black masculinity. Oluwaseun's speakers--usually, but not specified, as two men--move between watery landscapes, snowy terrains, and domestic conflicts. Each poem proceeds by way of music and melody, allowing themes of masculinity, sex, parental relations, death, and love to conspire within a voice that prioritizes intimate address. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn announcing their acquisition of the UK edition, after a three-way auction, \u003ci\u003eStrange Beach\u003c\/i\u003e was described as \"a wrangling of the various selves we hold and perform - across oceans and within relationships - through a highly patterned and textual lyrical play: it is a deeply moving and philosophical tapestry.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrange Beach\u003c\/i\u003e often eschews meaning, preferring, in its deluge of images and emotions, to transmute messages straight to the mind to the reader. Oluwaseun's poetic influences are clear: Claudia Rankine, Jorie Graham, Louise Gluck, Carl Phillips, Kevin Young, Hannah Sullivan, John Ashberry, and Ocean Vuong. Strange Beach is a searching collection where land and water, body and mind, image and abstraction, are in productive tension, leading to third ways of considering intimacy, selfhood, and desire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOLUWASEUN OLAYIWOLA\u003c\/b\u003e's poems have been published and anthologized in \u003ci\u003eOxford Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTATE, bath magg, 14poems, Re: creation, Queerlings\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e with forthcoming publications in the \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePN Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Most recently, he was placed second in the Ledbury Poetry Competition. His criticism has been published in \u003ci\u003eTelegraph, Magma, Poetry Birmingham\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003ePoetry School\u003c\/i\u003e. His choreographic work has been commissioned by Southwark Council and he is an associate artist at Swindon Dance. Oluwaseun has an MFA in Choreography from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where he was a Fulbright Scholar in 2018-2019. He lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51186289836306,"sku":"9781593767761","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c688ad48-e79c-487c-9050-5516426c8be4.jpg?v=1744620445","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/strange-beach-poems-9781593767761","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}