Strange Beach: Poems Space Opera she's scared

she's scared

and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence

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I survived a murder attempt and bankruptcy

Strange Beach: Poems Space Opera she's scaredA debut poetry collection wrangling the various selves we hold and perform across oceans and within relationships as told through a queer, Nigerian American lens. At times surreal, at times philosophical, the poems of Strange Beach demarcate a fiercely interior voice inside of queer Black masculinity. Oluwaseuns speakers usually, but not specified, as two men move between watery landscapes, snowy terrains, and domestic conflicts. Each poem proceeds by