{"product_id":"obalay-jide-badmus-9781953447487","title":"Obalúayé","description":"\u003cp\u003eObaluaye is a poetry collection for the things that plague us. Obaluaye is a Yoruba god of infirmities and healing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in this book talk of cradles and graves and every experience in-between, employing the duality attribute of the Orisha of epidemics. Each poem is an experience of health and death wrapped in a pod, of strength and flaws and a thirst for things that elude.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection explores the human cycle-the routine of life and death (and a possibility of restoration, rebirth). It seeks to understand the things that haunt us-our fears, our nightmares, quest for freedom, the weight of responsibilities, the paradox of hope, devotion and betrayals, failed states and the covid-19 pandemic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObaluaye is a realization that \"life is a cocktail of sweet, sour and insipid\" and we are born to run this cycle, reaching for light, reaching for freedom...that ultimately leads to the grave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jide Badmus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1953447481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953447487\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Flowersong Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d","brand":"Jide Badmus","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075043913983,"sku":"9781953447487","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8408dabc-b44a-4ac5-b3b7-a085364e8285.jpg?v=1685457278","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/obalay-jide-badmus-9781953447487","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}