Obalúayé

Jide Badmus

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Obaluaye is a poetry collection for the things that plague us. Obaluaye is a Yoruba god of infirmities and healing.

The 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.

This 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.

Obaluaye 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.

Book Details

Publisher: Flowersong Press
Publish Date: Aug 1st, 2022
Pages: 80
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.19in - 0.28lb
EAN: 9781953447487
Categories: • African

About the Author

Badmus, Jide: - Jide Badmus is an engineer, a poet inspired by beauty and destruction; he believes that things in ruins were once beautiful.Jide is the author of There is a Storm in my Head; Scripture; Paradox of Little Fires; Paper Planes in the Rain (co-authored with Pamilerin Jacob); Silk Psalms (with Alozor Michael); and Anatomy of the Sun (and everything beneath) co-authored with Tukur Loba Ridwan. He has a Pushcart Prize nomination.Badmus has curated and edited several anthologies such as Vowels Under Duress; Coffee; Today, I Choose Joy; and How to Fall in Love.He is the founder of INKspiredNG, Poetry Editor for Con-scio Magazine, and sits on the board of advisors for Libretto Magazine. He has a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from University of Ilorin, Nigeria and a Master's in Information Technology Management from Binary University, Malaysia. He is married to Linda and they are blessed with two daughters, Nora and Nicole. He writes from Lagos, Nigeria.

Praise for this book

The poems of Jide Badmus have thrusts, intricacy, pathos. They have movement, juice, immediacy. No wonder the poems can snarl and also be tender. This poet is not afraid to imagine the ideal and confront injustice. The full force of intimate spaces-bodily and environmental-is not discounted. These sensuous and insightful poems take hold of you, involve you. In Obalúayé, Badmus has written poems that are like doors we can enter into. You need this book.

-Uche Nduka, author of SCISSORWORK

Jide Badmus stunning collection of raw and visceral poetry speaks volumes on the human condition. This is the kind of book that will be talked about for generations to come.

-Natalie Sierra, author of Charlie, Forever and Ever

A positive charge that grants access to the reader runs through Obalúayé. Jide Badmus brings fresh but keenly observed lines to the contemporary poetry coming out of Nigeria. Whether he is in the meditative vein or skirting erotic ecstasy, the controlled lyricism of this poet plunges us into the very pools of primal poetry.

-Tade Ipadeola, author of The Sahara Testaments