A Phial of Passing Memories - Paperback

by James Yékú (Author)

James Yékú's second collection lingers on a poetics of elsewhere, as seen through poems that evoke various memories. In A Phial of Passing Memories, the poems offer shifting sceneries that record the everyday and chronicle vagrant seasons. This collection presents the vivid imagination of a keen mind documenting the passing rhythms of the abiding and the mundane, unfurling in a dance of elegance and lyrical beauty. The poems meander but remain anchored in particular geographies, from where they engage the varied cadences of the human condition. They blend the strange and the familiar into a meditation on the power of unforgetting, the enjambments and stoppages of journeys, and the nature of things themselves.

Author Biography

James Yékú is a tenured professor at the University of Kansas where he teaches African literature, and digital cultures. In addition to two academic monographs, Yékú is the author of Where The Baedeker Leads, and Ambivalent Encounters and Other Essays. A Phial of Passing Memories is his second poetry collection. Yékú resides in Lawrence, Kansas.