If the question is America-and by extension, who is and what does it mean to be American? -AFRICANAMERICAN'T offers no answers. The CAN'T in the title suggests impossibility and that is precisely what the book is interested in. Even in the so-called land of opportunity, some things remain impossible for its speaker(s). In a way, AFRICANAMERICAN'T is a document of attempted refusals: assimilation, forgetting, and allegiance to any one country. However valid despair might be as a response to the continued failings of his two countries, Ayokunle Falomo traverses the distance between betrayal and love in an attempt to find poetry-and perhaps, something like hope-in all the places it can't be found.



Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	126
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Flowersong Press
Fecha de Publicación	2022-12-22
Dimensiones	9.0" x 6.0" x 0.27" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	Africano, Africano, Africano, Africano, Africano, Africano, Africano, Africano, Africano, Africano, Africano, Africano, Africano, Africano

Falomo, Ayokunle

"AYOKUNLE FALOMO is Nigerian, American, a TEDx speaker, and the author of AFRICANAMERICAN'T (FlowerSong Press, 2022), two self-published collections: KIN.DREAD (2017) and thread, this wordweaver must! (2014) and African, American (selected by Selah Saterstrom as the winner of New Delta Review's annual chapbook contest in 2019). His work has been anthologized and published in print and online - The New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Houston Public Media, New England Review, Write About Now, Michigan Quarterly Review, Glass Mountain, Berkeley Poetry Review, Santa Fe Writers Project, The Texas Review among others. A recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and Vermont Studio Center, his poems have been selected as finalists or winners for Fourteen Hills Press' Stacy Doris Memorial Award, Flypaper Magazine's Music Poetry Contest, The OffBeat's Poetry Contest, and Nimrod Journal's The Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from University of Houston, a Specialist in School Psychology degree from Sam Houston State University and is currently a Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program, where he obtained his MFA in Creative Writing - Poetry."