Each One A Furnace

Poems

Each One A Furnace
Tolu Oloruntoba
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Paperback
h216 x 146mm - 80pg
22 Mar 2022 CAN
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9780771051586
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From the author of The Junta of Happenstance, here is a brilliant new collection of poems-a burning chronicle of passage and stillness and restlessness. Each One a Furnace explores (im)migration, diasporas, transience, and instability by following the behaviour, and abundant variety, of finches. The often-migratory birds in these poems typify the unrest, and inability to rest, that animate the lives of billions in the modern world. Out of the register of ornithology, themes of difficulty, adversity, and migrancy, urban ennui, and the psychic struggles of diasporic peoples take shape as those unable to be at rest in the world take to improbable flight. Trailing the global mobility of birds, in urban and non-urban settings, in historical and contemporary contexts, and through the metaphysical and concrete, Each One a Furnace is a chronicle of struggle within, and between, cultures.
Praise for Tolu Oloruntoba and Each One a Furnace "The compendium of post-apocalyptic finches we meet in Tolu Oloruntoba' s Each One a Furnace seem to reach back to us from a not-so-distant future, to narrate the evolutionary burnout of most of the bird family Fringillidae. Imagine if a poem could be the collective knowledge of a species in the moment of its extinction, a translation of the painfully beautiful finale of all birdsong. ' What lessons did you learn / about the transactional conviviality / of captive flocks? ' Oloruntoba' s finches, buntings, siskins, grosbeaks are all somewhere between mid-dying flight and already gone, singing like canaries in the coal mine of global capital, flaming out like comets of feather and consciousness and history. " -Sonnet L' Abbe, author of Sonnet' s Shakespeare
TOLU OLORUNTOBA lived in Nigeria and the United States before settling in the metro area of Coast Salish lands known as Vancouver with his family. He spent his early career as a primary care physician, and currently manages virtual health projects with organizations in British Columbia. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, while his debut chapbook, Manubrium, was a bpNichol Chapbook Award finalist. The Junta of Happenstance, his first full-length collection, was the winner of the 2021 Governor General' s Literary Award for English Language Poetry.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780771051586
Published: 22 Mar 2022
Published In: Canada
Imprint: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 146mm
Pages: 80

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