{"product_id":"how-the-end-first-showed-d-m-aderibigbe-9780299319847","title":"How the End First Showed","description":"Crafting raw memories into restrained and compact verse, D. M. Aderibigbe traces the history of domestic and emotional abuse against women in his family. A witnessing son, grandson, nephew, and brother, he rejects the tradition of praise songs for the honored father, refusing to offer tribute to men who dishonor their wives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWidening his gaze to capture the moral rhythms of life in Lagos, he embraces themes of love, spirituality, poverty, compassion, sickness, and death. Aderibigbe offers both an extended elegy for his mother and poems addressed to children of the African continent, poems that speak to the past that has made them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe salivated; slices of yam softened. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe chewed our teeth; slices of yam perished. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMother smiled. Father arrived, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003efilled the room with curses; \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ehis voice beat in our hearts, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eas thunder on the walls of a building. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis empty stomach was a bowl of anger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a room built with our silence, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003efather was hitting mother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--excerpt from \"Hungry Man\" D. M. Aderibigbe. All rights reserved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e D. M. Aderibigbe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299319849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299319847\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d","brand":"D. M. Aderibigbe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047738929407,"sku":"9780299319847","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c67e16e2-4d7b-43bf-a268-b25b2ca464af.jpg?v=1684991912","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-the-end-first-showed-d-m-aderibigbe-9780299319847","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}