My Foolish Fantasies: Prose Poems & Meditations

All we are is words. One hundred and nine short poems from Gambian writer Lamin Ceesay, wandering between love and aloneness, faith and doubt, the town and the tavern, Africa and the self. Written in the spoken-word voice of his manifesto, The Little Book of Afrocanos, these prose-poems turn small things, a tree that loses its fruit, a happy cat, a marijuana seed, a town crier, into quiet reckonings with the biggest questions we carry: How do you keep loving in a world that keeps taking? What survives us when the body is gone? And who are you, really, when all the distractions fall away? Here is a poet who talks to God over wine like an old friend, who grieves a daughter he only met in a dream, who calls The Gambia his lover and Africa a mother who never raised her children, and who insists, again and again, that love is the only sensible reason for living. >"Do not die while you are alive." Perfect for readers of Rumi and Hafez, Rupi Kaur, Nayyirah Waheed, Warsan Shire, and anyone who loves African literature, spoken-word poetry, and short poems with a long echo.