This book employs the use of quotes, to aid its division into three parts, each part
serving to tell the narrative of a relationship birthed in passion, but doomed to fail.
The first quote by Frank Ocean is from his song ‘Seigfried,’ which is the15th track on
his critically acclaimed album; Blonde.
The next one, by Anna Swir, is the first stanza of her poem titled, ‘I’ll open the window.’
Anna’s quote is then followed by a quote from Nonso Obieyisi’s poem ‘The summer of melancholy.’ This poem can be found on his Instagram page @nonnymax.
The first stanza from Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, ‘One art,’ is used as a channel to the book’s concluding part.
‘Another lover gone by sunrise,’ begins with a line from Pamilerin Jacob’s poem,
‘Fifty lines of surrealism,’ from the chapbook, ‘Paper planes in the rain,’ co-written by Jide Badmus and Pamilerin Jacob.
‘Catharsis,’ is after ‘Godspeed’; the 17th track on Blonde.
Three poems from this book; ‘In a world without poetry,’ ‘A meditation on heartbreak,’ ‘I have mastered the art of falling in love,’ have appeared on issue 2.1 of
The African Writers Review, an online literary magazine.
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Poetry"the day you first told me you loved me, it was hot, the sun picked at our skins like god was trying to kill us with a magnifying glass. . ."
