All the Washroom in Washington Where We Got Nak*ed Collection of Special Poems (Featuring Newly Created Poetry Techniques) |
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| Author:
| Odekunle, Emmanuel |
| ISBN: | 979-8-8336-5093-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2022 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $5.00 |
Book Description:
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Our bathwater is lukewarm I have discarded all my clothes waiting to change the pronoun to our I have tried to eat all the soluble soap in the washroom I have jumped into the sink plunged into the lukewarm bathwater I have cast all the pearls you gifted me, all the aloes and the cucumbers into the sink I have taken a boiling ring turned on the tap that whistles My head is caught in the current of the running...
More Description Our bathwater is lukewarm
I have discarded all my clothes
waiting to change the pronoun to our
I have tried to eat all the soluble soap in the washroom
I have jumped into the sink
plunged into the lukewarm bathwater
I have cast all the pearls you gifted me,
all the aloes and the cucumbers into the sink
I have taken a boiling ring
turned on the tap that whistles
My head is caught in the current of the running water.
My head is wrapped around in seaweed and smoke.
Try and put off all the lights in the hallway
leading to all the rooms we get comfortably naked
all the rooms with walls we aren't ashamed of
Try and wrap all the pets we own
in different bathmats of varying thickness.
Abrass the wet floor
the spots we have marked
where the dying moths can perch.
About the Book
All the Washroom in Washington Where We Got Nak*ed book of poems blends in the unseen world with that of the tangible, merging what is fluid and surreal with structures that are solid and concrete, creating a superlative form of imagery in poetry. In the chapbook we are made to picture simultaneously events happening in the ethereal space sine qua non with happenings in the physical world. The same structures and objects being wielded in two hyper planes.
The poetry is dosed with characters that can transform into mummies and effigies at a snap of a finger or taking up multiple personalities. All the Washroom in Washington Where We Got Nak*ed helps us experience the full blight and burn of schizophrenic and neurotic poetry.
"Reading concept poetry is always refreshing anytime and always; gives you newer perspectives and narratives about those things one would on a normal day call 'normal'. For a poet like Chronicler, your 'idle cloth hanger' is an alternative girlfriend in a parallel world. Emmanuel (the master poet) spins poetry like a magician, transforming objects into persons and vice versa. I really fell madly in love with Emmanuel's final punch line in the poem: I have wrench and a screw of everything, I will transform when I get into the washroom --"but I won't use fragrant soap."
- Carlos Williams
Author of Dancing with Ugly Angels
"Emmanuel is daring, bold with poetry and apologetic, a skilled wordsmith. With deft punch lines and riveting anecdotes. His delivery of poetry comes with a different air. Saying his poem is "good poetry" is a wash-down for such kind of uncommon poet. He is a master poet, a rival for the world's greats in poetry. Emmanuel's poetry is a mix of several voices in poetry, speaking for the large and overbearing schools of poetry as well as relating dear heart down with the smaller schools. Emmanuel Odekunle is an art himself in art."
Jose Ferdinand
Author of Free Their Dragons
If you read poetry and you and you never had to regurgitate what you have read, it means the poem was -- plain stupid. Emmanuel has mastered the art of writing poetry in a way that it keeps you coming for more rare versification, with newly crafted techniques, chronicler bypasses the norms of traditional poetry scripting and verges into the modern and mainstream art of creating sharp imagery. Coding every word to mean more than their face value, heightening every loose image and drawing substance out of mundane realities. He is able to create what you call "the poem" pieces of out of nature, out of box.
- Anonymous Reader