{"product_id":"death-does-not-end-at-the-sea","title":"Death Does Not End at the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Raz\/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Gbenga Adesina's groundbreaking debut book of poems, a defiant and wise exploration of exile, voyages, and spiritual odysseys, we encounter figures embarking on journeys haunted by history--a son keeps dreaming he carried his dead father across the sea; a young Black father, tired of fear and breathlessness, travels with his son in search of the ghost of James Baldwin--to Paris, the south of France, Turkey, and Senegal to investigate his ancestral roots; and finally, a group of immigrants on small boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea sing in order not to drown, in a stunning sequence that invokes the middle passage. In a lyrical voice at once new and surprisingly ancient, Adesina's \u003ci\u003eDeath Does Not End at the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e explores the complexity of elusive citizenship, an immigrant's brokenhearted prayer for a new beginning, a chorus of elegies, and a cosmic love song between the living and the dead.","brand":"Gbenga Adesina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43797493088298,"sku":"9781496244772","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/death-does-not-end-at-the-sea-5652285.jpg?v=1762250598","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/death-does-not-end-at-the-sea","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}