"In poem after poem Adeoba plunges us with merciless literary grace into a world where waves become shrouds that wrap themselves around 'fragments of lived lives.' Men, women, and children become 'a band of unnamed migrants / found floating on the face of the sea.' This generic bundling of human beings into 'migrants' - deliberately viewed from a distance narrator's Western perspective - is intentional. By doing so, Adeoba draws attaention to the need for the specificities of memory." - Sholeh Wolpé. Adeoba's chapbook is part of the New-Generation African Poets (SITA) boxset series. The limited-edition boxset is an annual project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today, and it is especially interested in featuring poets who have not yet published their first full-length book of poetry. Cover art: The Return of a Departure (detail) (2017), by Aïda Muluneh