The Junta of Happenstance

Download or read book The Junta of Happenstance written by Tolu Oloruntoba and published by Anstruther Books. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal, primordial, and pulsing with syncopated language, Tolu Oloruntoba's poetic debut, The Junta of Happenstance, is a compendium of dis-ease. This includes disease in the traditional sense, as informed by the poet's time as a physician, and dis-ease as a primer for family dysfunction, the (im)migrant experience, and urban / corporate anxiety. In the face of struggles against social injustice, Oloruntoba navigates the contemporary moment with empathy and intelligence, finding beauty in chaos, and strength in suffering. The Junta of Happenstance is an important and assured debut.