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The Poetic Man

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Last updated on Jun 13, 2026 05:11 PM

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Category Brains & Noble > Poetry

Condition new

SKU BN-56744

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Kanu makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we’ve become accustomed and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and beauty of our culture are propelled into stunning clarity by Kanu’s mastery. The Poetic Mann is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while reveling in a celebration of contradiction.

Oluchukwu Kanu fearlessly interrogates how the pen can heal society. With honesty, precision, tenderness of detail, and a light touch, He explores love for his culture. The poems read like a love letter to our culture and leave the reader with a strong dose of hope for their tradition.

In this collection of poems covering Africa, meditation and memory, and everything in between, we hear Kanu’s voice mingled with the voices of our ancestors, our past, and our future, calling to us to reflect as ‘lifestreaming hurriedly to us’. Woven within the lyricism of the words, the poems are a political and social commentary on the life that evokes and reminds us of the stories we tell and are told about us.