Saltwater Demands a Psalm
Abimbola, Kweku
Winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, selected by Tyehimba Jess.In Ghana's Akan tradition, on the eighth day of life a child is named according to the day of the week on which they were born. This marks their true birth. In Kweku Abimbola's rhapsodic debut, the intimacy of this practice yields an intricately layered poetics of time and body based in Black possibility, ancestry, and joy. While odes and praise songs celebrate...