{"product_id":"the-naming-paperback-softback-9781496244703","title":"The Naming (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496244703","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Naming\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496244703\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e80 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Naming\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of surrender, how the child surrenders to the parent, and the adult to the infant. Thus, \u003cb\u003eChinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto\u003c\/b\u003e creates themself, a poet, a multiplicity of voices, in language that is familiar but entirely new. Beginning with incantations, the collection seems to collect from antiquity and carry the reader on a current of sound through actual historical moments, reverie, confession, and fantasy. The poems recraft the traditional dialogue between life and magic, to the disturbances of the present, in a language that is vivid and resonant. These poems deliver us to the knowledge of what it means to be human, and African, in humor and reverence and wonder.”—\u003cb\u003ePhillippa Yaa de Villiers\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Everyday Wife\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eice cream headache in my bone\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto’s \u003ci\u003eThe Naming\u003c\/i\u003e engraves in language lineages that whisper through his fingers. And thus, he never separates himself from the grounding of his spiritual force fields. These poems, of such interior strength and wonder, intone wisdoms only found on the outskirts of our parochial facades. The result? \u003ci\u003eThe Naming\u003c\/i\u003e makes peace with historical wounds and spurs us to live in complete astonishment.”—\u003cb\u003eMajor Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eRazzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002–2022\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Absurd Man\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Naming\u003c\/i\u003e explores the movements, excesses, and extremes of existing as a postmodern individual, connecting these experiences to ancestry. The poems in this collection examine the various ways one remains tied to their ancestors by reimagining memories, history, homesteads, migration, and the intersections of the past, present, and possible futures. Through this exploration, the collection seeks to rebuild a world that doesn’t merely replicate realities but reinvents, enshrines, and restories them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto\u003c\/b\u003e’s poems offer a vital contribution to African cultural studies through their focus on Igbo heritage and ancestry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Fathers’ Fathers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A Call at Dawn \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Appraisal \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Unfurling \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Naming \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Marley’s Lyrics in Two Parts or Where Does It Hurt the Most? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e What I Said to God, Chukwu Ọ̀kịké \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The Story of Chinụalụmọgụ Not Looking for Anything with His Lazy Eyes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Memorabilia \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e What Chinụalụmọgụ Made with Clouds \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Once Upon a Time the Teeth \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The Navel \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Here \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The Actual Story About the Keloid on Chinụalụmọgụ’s Left Arm \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Colors \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The Gift \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Teaching My Nephew \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e There Is a New Philosophy Now Called Kwechiri, to Persevere \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The Measure of Lost Things \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Itches \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The Robin in My Heart \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Worries \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Once Upon a Girl, a Place of History \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chinụalụmọgụ Sits on His Balcony Pretending He Is a Parcel \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The Teenager Who Became a Mother \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e What They Say I Do Not Carry Well \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A Dead Son Does Not Answer the Phone \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The World Will Never Run Out of Bad News \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Ọzụbụlụ \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Úgà \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Monochrome Photos with Fragments in a Closet \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e As Seeing Is a Kind of Brightness \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Okụzụ \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e At the Darien Gap \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDear Hope\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Finding \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Ìkwìkwíī, Sweet Night Bird, by the Lamp on a Dim-Lighted Street \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Ọbashị \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Confession \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chinụalụmọgụ’s Therapist Kept Smiling at His Tricks \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Web \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A Page from Chinụalụmọgụ’s Diary \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Foregrounding \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Falling Oranges \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A Gift from Ọlisa Eloka, the One from Umuchu, to His Dearest Friend, Chinụalụmọgụ, Who Received It on the Afternoon of the Third Day After His Traditional Marriage to Mmesoma \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Mercy \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Clarity \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e On Chinụalụmọgụ Once Living in Lincoln, Nebraska \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Forgiveness \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A Call’s Dusk \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670829068568,"sku":"9781496244703","price":13.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-naming-paperback-softback-9781496244703","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}