Description
ISBN 978-1946-583-505
204pp / 7.5″ x 9.5″
Paperback
A new collection of poetry by Uche Nduka.
In, Pirouette, Uche Nduka vivifies the milieu of a person with vast experience of life on a lush and troubled planet. The result is collage-like, poems presented variously, sparse, koan-like pages interwoven with lengthy riverine prose-like explorations that span space and time. Through the conflagrations of thought and sound you can almost feel the urges that occurred to the writer’s fingers responding to small psychochemical sparks in the brain. With wide-ranging knowledge and playfulness, the work can be described as a poetic history, a travelogue, a revelation, a possibility to go places never known before. The generative nature of the work throughout informs obscure but momentous histories and introduces the reader to many fascinating beings (the ever adventurous, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle!) It may be best to stand up and read aloud, under the influence of hefty language. A recurring sensuality exemplifies a soul on fire, in love with life in the face of whatever heartbreak, cruelty, and chaos may be enmeshed in the fabric of our existence.
ABOUT UCHE NDUKA — Uche Nduka is a poet-pilgrim, collagist, and essayist presently living in New York City. He is the author of 15 volumes of poems of which the latest are BAINBRIDGE ISLAND NOTEBOOK (Roof Books, 2023 ) and TO UMBER (The Bodily Press, 2025 ). A NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow In Poetry, his writing has been translated into Italian, Finnish, Turkish, Arabic, Dutch, German, Serbo-Croat, Romanian, Czech. His essays on music, poetry, mortality, politics, culture, and travel have appeared in various online and print outlets. He teaches at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and Queens College-CUNY.
