Publisher: Cissus World Press, USA
£18.00
About the author
CHIELOZONA EZE grew up in Amokwe, Nigeria. He studied philosophy at St.
Joseph’s Major Seminary, Ikot Ekpene; Catholic theology with the Jesuits
in Innsbruck, Austria, philosophy/literature and creative writing at
Purdue University, USA. He is currently Professor of English and African
literature at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. He has
published poems and short stories in journals such as Eclectica,
Wasafiri, MTLS and Northeast Review. He was shortlisted for the
inaugural Brunel University African Poetry Prize in 2013. In 2016 he was
selected as one of the new generation African poets whose chapbooks
were published by the African Poetry Book Fund. His chapbook is titled
Survival Kit.
Review
“In this meditative and quietly lyrical approach, Chielozona Eze marks
himself in this new African poetics not as a voice of easy protest, not
as the voice of a bombast and rhetorical turn, but as the voice of an
African poet in the twenty-first century trying to make sense of all the
hunger, anger, war, loss, and desecration that has haunted his life and
the lives of many Africans but remains always poised on that tender
grace, that ease of dance, that transubstantiation that works an alchemy
that is not about the outcome but always about the struggle, the
engagement, and the terms thereof.”
Chris Abani, Board of Trustee Professor of English, Northwestern University
“This collection is a fitting memorial to a war still unatoned for and
its accompanying sense of bereavement and lack of closure. In tune with a
pervasive sense of loss and quiet recollection, the poems are
meditative, packing a punch in their ambling profundity; Chielozona Eze
does not blame; he speaks of introspection and love.”
Amatoritsero Ede, Publisher & Managing Editor, Maple Tree Literary Supplement