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What is Seahorses about?

Abayomi Animashaun writes poignantly about the bittersweet experience of immigrants and refugees, the Others in the new paradise that is America. For many, this land of opportunity has become a land of hostility, where survival means wearing a demure smile [that]// Signals nothing/ Of the old city within. But sometimes even this mask cannot guarantee inclusion or security. Fortified by insight and imagination, the poems in Seahorses mine those moments of injustice in order to find clarity about the troubling time we live in. Rigoberto Gonzlez The poems in Seahorses are honed as axe blades, and they deliver a witnessing blow, telling of detainment camps, exile, loss, and a silence worn/As coat and/Top hat.//Sorrow tucked/In the left/Breast pocket. Animashauns speakers are fluid, at times reprehensible, at other times eliciting deep compassion, testifying to the life of the sole/Black immigrant/On the cul-de-sac. The tone of this collection is by turns apocalyptic and tender, and at times a playfulness appears, as when poems turn to Wonderland, and Oz, and a Lorca-like approach to the image emergesa dream Of goats painting/their hooves green, and Night/With a thousand yellow lights/B

Author

Abayomi Animashaun

Publisher

[New York, NY]: Black Lawrence Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781625578082

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.03 / 5 (67 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14