Recipe for the Poet by Deonte Osayande
$14.99
“In Recipe for the Poet, Osayande coaxes us through memory, through the familiar, through the stuff that holds us together. A relationship, a life, as seen through the vista of a fiddle, the winding curve that is the process of love as seen through simple gestures and feel of roses, all of it the material stuff that is mixed, sifted, stirred, and baked in the warmth of the everyday. Here, we feel the poet’s world through the rhythm of words, the revelation of memories. Here we breath in and back in shared beautiful lyric air. “
–D.A. Lockhart, author Devil in the Woods (Brick Books, 2019) and Breaking Right (Porcupine’s Quill, 2020)
Deonte Osayande emerges from the pandemic with a beautiful necessary recipe for survival in a time of reflection, loss and necessary healing. A delicate and powerful collection that kisses wounds while demanding justice for his community. These poems honor the natural order of life and death and questions all of it at once. A homage to authentic love and a humbling of a body, a moving forward of ancestor spirit. Heartfelt and wonderfully crafted, is the work of Deonte Osayande.
–Jessica Care Moore, Author of “We Want Our Bodies Back”, Publisher at Moore Black Press
Description
Recipe for the Poet
by Deonte Osayande
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-478-2
2021
Deonte Osayande is a writer from Detroit, Mi. His nonfiction and poetry have been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology, and the Pushcart Prize, and a Digital Book Award. He has represented Detroit at 4 National Poetry Slam competitions. He’s a professor of English at Wayne County Community College. His books include Class (Urban Farmhouse Press, 2017), Circus (Brick Mantle Books, 2018) and Civilian (Urban Farmhouse Press, 2019). He also managed the Rustbelt Midwest Regional Poetry Slam for 2014 and 2018.
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