Olatunde Osinaike Joins Alice James Books with Second Collection, Image + Likeness
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Olatunde Osinaike Joins Alice James Books with Second Collection, Image + Likeness
Alice James Books will publish Image + Likeness in August 2027.
On Image + Likeness, Alice James Executive Director and Publisher Carey Salerno says: “Characterized by crisp language, fluid syntax, and brisk beats, these poems contemplated what is quantifiable, the tangibility of intangibility. Sonically eloquent and emotionally intimate poems open up possibilities, beginnings, and celebrate what's rooted in and fueled by love. "I am meant for more, not for none," writes Osinaike. His poems consider masculinity and its constructs as well as the importance of emotion, interior landscape, and individuality in relation to the visible, physical world: what are our thoughts but distractions or dreams that attempt to make reality more fanciful or worthy? As well, calligrams abound!”
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Originally from the West Side of Chicago, OLATUNDE OSINAIKE is a Nigerian-American poet and essayist, now living in Atlanta with his wife. He is the author of Image + Likeness (Alice James Books, forthcoming) and Tender Headed (Akashic Books, 2023), selected by Camille Rankine as a winner of the National Poetry Series. His debut collection, for which he was named the 2024 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry, has been celebrated by The Millions, Publishers Weekly, Brittle Paper, New York Times, and EBONY Magazine. A winner of the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, his work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Literary Hub, 68to05, The Slowdown, Obsidian, Poet Lore, 20.35 Africa, Hunger Mountain, Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere.
