It has been some time coming and you all knew we were going to come through. HERE IT IS, Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto’s lovely chapbook, The Teenager who became my mother. It is the third in our SEVHAGE poetry Chapbook series that was inaugurated with Agatha Aduro’s The Enchanting. The series celebrates the best of poetry from fresh and established voices over time.
So, dear everyone and anyone, please download Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto’s The Teenager who became my mother by CLICKING HERE.
You can get a feel of the book and the author from an interview he had with Su’eddie Vershima Agema HERE or just google to find some of his amazing poems all over the web.
THOUGHTS ON The Teenager who Became my Mother:
“A boulevard of beauty: Chinua leads us through the plains of memory with a certain grace and simplicity. In this chapbook, a family album is erected with/by language, & we are once again invited into the tenderness of being, of existing despite the war that is the world, despite the wounds that flash behind and before us.”
- Nome Patrick Emeka, Award winning poet
Ezenwa-Ohaeto presents tragedy and solace in a flamboyant and yet disturbing fashion and you can effortlessly relate with his fear of becoming “more shattered than an over-ripped pawpaw that fell from its tree.” And even in that awful hurricane of the reality his poetry captures, he still offers, with a redeeming measure of grace, that soulful rejuvenation is not yet beyond sight.
- Olisa Eloka, Editor and critic.
In The Teenager Who Became My Mother, we are left breathless—first, by a grief without age lines and how disconcerting it seems to leave us; second, by Ezenwa-Ohaeto’s management of such grief, his ability to shift its entire direction to a territory of hope. We should be grateful for the latter. sight.
- Innocence Silas Sharamang, Double Winner, Korea-Nigeria Poetry Prize (2017&2019)
“Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto is a talented poet of great promise. He is someone to watch out for, a man with a good heart and grace. True son of his legendary father, Ezenwa-Ohaeto, making a name in his own right and might. It has been awesome working on this chapbook… This is the beginning of great works and more to come. May the times be kind.”
– S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema, Team Lead/CEO, SEVHAGE Literary Movement
Happy Reading!!
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Reblogged this on Su'eddie in Life n' Literature and commented:
Well, this has been one of the major projects taking my time in the last months. It was fun to work on and I am proud of the poet, great guy. Alrightie then, everyone, here is presenting to you: Chinua Ezenwa Ohaeto’s THE TEENAGER WHO BECAME MY MOTHER. Do read, share, and please send us feedback. Much love and the best of regards. SVA
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