"Nebeolisas poems are rich with familial and emotional nuances, and are left artfully unresolved. A robust assemblage of dreamscapes, conversations, prayers, and meditations on life and death, this collection humanely reckons with the realities of losing a parent." * Publishers Weekly * Because the growl of thunder was distant, the speaker notes in Terminal Maladies, I completely ignored it. The mere mention of the far-off rumbling, however, means otherwise. This thunderous collection considers the space between attention and abstraction, between life and death. Which is another way to say love. -- Nicole Sealey, author of "The Ferguson Report: An Erasure" Nebeolisas debut, Terminal Maladies, introduces a poet so skillful and original that his book represents a vital moment in contemporary poetry. Centering around the loss of the poets mother, these poems match acute observation with abiding sympathy. Masterful with formal as well as free verse, Nebeolisa moves beyond mere technique: his lines and sentences render the people he portrays with agile care. They also reveal, with often disarming immediacy, a writer capable of remaining in uncertainty and still determined to face unanticipated, often painful truths. Unsparing and yet infinitely tender, these are major poems. They will be with us for a long time to come. -- Peter Campion, author of "One Summer Evening at the Falls" "Nebeolisas Terminal Maladies is an unflinching debut wrought by the power of naming, the power of image, a mothers belief in the power of prayer. Clear-eyed but abashed, this collection insists on the necessity of memory and the inevitability of elegy. Nebeolisas speaker is at once vulnerable and indifferent, yet I felt undone by the speakers love for mother and depth of feeling for home no matter the distance." -- Donika Kelly, author of "The Renunciations" "Terminal Maladies is a book measured in distance from motherour first other. In these heartfelt but unerringly unsentimental poems, birth, the differentiation of self, migration, and death are plotted as points along a continuum; the émigrés geographic separation from his ailing mother presages the ultimate, unfordable one, just as the poets estrangement of syntax mirrors interior dislocations. Nebeolisa is a poet of subtlety and surprise, in whose voice his mothers, on the other end of the line, still reverberates." -- Jameson Fitzpatrick, author of "Pricks in the Tapestry"
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