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When I Am Dead

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Last updated on Jun 13, 2026 05:08 PM

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Category Brains & Noble > Poetry

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SKU BN-125464

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In lines that are both sweeping and breath-taking, like tributaries overflowing the shores, James Onyebụchi Nnaji’s poetry captivates, drawing us down a labyrinthine world as vibrant as the manifold landscape evoked in When I Am Dead Again. Yet, it is a world reminiscent of human brutality and despoliation. This book blends the mythic, material, and spiritual to imagine new futures from the thrumming space between the past and the present. Onyebụchi is a poet with oracular insight into the world.

Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Author of There’s More. The poetry of James Onyebuchi Nnaji is like an open wound collecting the agony of a country and the grief of memory into a debut anthology of inventive poetry. Line after line, in a voice which echoes with Christopher Okigbo’s, and the temper and tenor of ancient griots, Nnaji calls us into the rituals of his sorrow, which is the sorrow of a broken nation, line after line, poem after poem, grief after grief. A book that old and new poets will relish. Amu Nnadi, Author of Through the window of a sandcastle, Winner of the Glenna Luschei African Book Prize, 2014 and ANA Poetry Prize 2013.