M. Ayodele Heath is a poet so fierce, so tender, so (rightly)
angry, so generous of heart and spirit that I am 1) grateful, and
2) reminded again and again why I love poetry, why I have reason to
love poetry: because it can be like this - Thomas Lux, author of
God Particles In this electrifying first collection of poems,
Ayodele Heath explores "otherness" -- Black otherness, Southern
otherness, African otherness, his otherness which becomes our
otherness and everyone's otherness -- with such heat and such heart
and such precision and magic that the words fairly fly off the
page. This is language swooning and falling in love with itself;
"consonants sharp as fangs and clean/ as bone." Here are poems
"burning the pages in my eyes;" poems that are sharp, hip, sassy
and smart as whips, taut as drums; poems full of beauty and horror
and passion, unpredictable at every turn. This is the kind of
poetry that keeps poetry alive. - Cecilia Woloch, author of
Carpathia The words of M. Ayodele Heath are 'a foam which knows no
foreign shore.' With his latest collection, Otherness, Heath bathes
us in pools flooded with humankind's purest mind. A golden tongued
man teaching the tone deaf to dance, his beat filled heart pulsing
arrhythmic codes to the misbegotten, one eye witnesses the gore and
the other praises glory. Open this book and allow this high priest
of prosody to reveal the secrets of okra seeds germinating beneath
the djembe's skin. - Robert Earl Price poet/ playwright M. Ayodele
Heath's Otherness is many-voiced, peopled with a rich and real
throng of speakers clamoring to have their say. Heath seems part
stage director, part mimic, part ventriloquist as he channels and
divines and ultimately bears witness to this subject of
"otherness," the history and repercussions of race in America and
abroad. His ear is outrageously good, his music rangy, unswerving,
and often dizzyingly ambitious. This is a remarkable first
collection. - Paula McLain, author of Less of Her, Stumble,
Gorgeous and The Paris Wife
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