Musings of a Tangled Tongue Prittleprattle and pickled poems Yemi Adesanya 9781530905270 Books
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Musings of a Tangled Tongue is a brave new entry, an exciting collection of poems that cut across a range of subjects love, life, lust, adventure, work-life balance, etc. The fresh, exciting, mischievous, and experimental style of the author makes this a fun addition to any poetry lover's library. "A lively and new voice sings of contemporary life in ways that are sometimes mischievous, sometimes brooding but always fresh and striking. In this debut collection, Yemi Adesanya has hit a rare note." Adebiyi Olusolape, Poetry Editor of Saraba Magazine. “... genuinely well-written, stimulating, experimental, daring, and full of life and mischief, just like the writer herself.” Kola Tubosun, writer and linguist, blogger at http//www.ktravula.com/.
Musings of a Tangled Tongue Prittleprattle and pickled poems Yemi Adesanya 9781530905270 Books
For a person who has no real prior relationship with poems, I must confess I immediately connected with some of the poems in 'Prittle, Prattle & Pickled' that expressed my lifestyle. This book is most appreciated when you read with an African mindset or language. Excellent piece of art.I will be looking forward to Yemi's next book
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Musings of a Tangled Tongue Prittleprattle and pickled poems Yemi Adesanya 9781530905270 Books Reviews
The author of Musings of a Tangled Tongue provides humor, wonder and insight with her poems. As a writer myself, whom writes poetry from time to time I can say these poems managed to not only catch your attention but you'll be able to declare a handful of poems to be your favorite. My top favorite poems are "World of Hypocrites", "Magic Lived Here" and "No Kidding". Sometimes we feel poetry is confusing, bleak or too serious but this book is none of the above. So give it a shot, I'm sure you will like it as much as I did.
I received this book free in exchange for a honest review.
I have not read poems on a regular basis in a long while. I believe that the last book of poems that I read was Ted Hughes’ “Birthday Letters”. YemiAdesanya’s new collection of poems “Musings of a Tangled Tongue Prittle-prattle poems” which I have just finished reading,awakened me to what I have been missing through my long absence from poems.
It is difficult not to praise this collection of poems. The poemsare not very technical, there are no forced rhymes. They are beautifully written in plain and accessible language, and the subject of each is easy to relate to.
“Musings” can be regarded as a long poem in separate sections, recording and/or documenting a series of emotions, thoughts, desires (and some challenges that married women in contemporary Nigeria know). There are revolts and lessons in it.
The book opens with the explosive “Here Lies Lust”, a poem of desire in which the author contrasts lust and love and concludes that they are both “Lies/Not skeletons, not quite/ though both glow china white/When truth strolls past/With Moonlight on his arm” and closes with "Kahlo's Picasso", a story of love consummated that nevertheless leaves a tinge of regret which "Adorn the faces of fading garbs/With sticky stains from drying felts/And rusty welts of cupid’s worn-out darts/Vivid images of this tryst engraved." These two poems which bookend “Musings” and both rich in metaphors and imagery, reveal the author’s impressive skills.
Some of the poems are personal, like “Sleepless Nights” in which she mourns the competing the tradeoff and challenges of sharing one’s life with another (“I know I should be sleeping/But I can’t ‘cos someone is snoring”), and others rebellious like “Loafday”, she rebels against the traditional expectations of a wife in a traditional, male-dominated society. I especially like the closing stanza of that poem in which she screams and pleads
“Today is loafday; I need to rest
Quit pulling my legs, give it a rest
I won’t bath too, yes, it is that bad
You see, this rest I need it so bad.”
Musings contains a wealth of social commentary as in “Love in Designer Threads” and Miss Zara’s Secret”-both commentaries, in my view, on the decadent pursuit of luxury in contemporary Nigeria. “Hallelujah” and “World of Hypocrites” are “odes” to contemporary Nigerian politics. Other poems like “No Kidding” and “Lessons” provide affectionate (“I’ll scream and wail to right you... Upright and forthright/You must stand), at times humorous but stern descriptions of domestic life. I loved the use of Nigerian English in “Mind Mirage” (“Clean face, dirty mind/You look so good/But smell one kind”).
Every Nigeria patriot will love and memorize “Thank a Brave Soldier” because of whom “We are free/because he will gladly die to keep me safe/We live as one, we fight as one/Victory for Nigeria, not a single barrier!”
The poems in this collection remind us that Nigeria remains a rich source of inspiration for the creative and artistic among us. Yemi Adesanya has given us a beautiful collection of poems, a collection accessible to all, to lovers of poems and everyday readers alike. Hers is a fresh voice, a joyful addition to the rich catalogue of Nigerian writers and poets, from whom a lot more is expected in the future.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading “Musings”. There is nothing “prittle-prattle in it. I unreservedly recommend it to all.
I launched into Musings of a Tangled Tongue as soon as it downloaded into my device. My reading ritual usually starts with randomly flipping through a new book, subconsciously expecting something to pique my attention, maybe a well-constructed sentence, maybe an odd idea, maybe some eccentric wordings, maybe an amusing quote, just anything to quickly advertise a book as worthy of my time. In this collection, the poem titled “Jack and Jill,” did the trick. Goofy like I love my rapports, mischievous like the literary works I love to return to, short and punchy like I love social media posts, this risqué poem served the first salvo from the collection. I laughed out after reading it and had to return to it to be sure I had not missed any hidden meaning, beyond its obvious naughtiness. Alas, no hidden meaning. It is what it is, a sexual tryst between two lovable characters of a famous nursery rhyme
Jack and Jill went off the grid
To pet a rampant boner.
Jack came first and spilled his spunk
Then Jill came, trembling after.
I flipped to “No Kidding,” a charming poem that evokes a mother’s devotion and admonition to her child. She speaks of her responsibility as a guide and guard of her child life’s journey and acknowledges, in the second verse, that the duty comes with chastisement
Put my life on the line to have you,
My hands on the grind to raise you,
My feet on the pedals I’ll drive you,
Upward and forward
You must go.
I’ll scream and wait to right you.
My hands are here they’ll flog you.
My feet on the path to guide you,
Uptight and forthright
You must stand.
My already piqued fascination about the collection (I must confess that “Jack and Jill” deceived me into thinking that I might be on a poetic Kama Sutra ride) was soon dulled by “Monday Madness,” a killjoy and bad-hair-day poem about the typical complaints of one caught in the throes of corporate monotony.
Stuck in a graveyard meeting
…
Can’t keep dancing this tango
In a half broken stiletto
A similar poem is “Hype Brigade,” which depicts a typical corporate lifecycle.
The collection’s major triumphs are its accessible themes and language. Especially those about love. I imagine Yemi reading “I Want to Love Your” at a spoken-word performance, maybe accompanied by guitar and conga.
The themes are simple and unpretentious, not as one expects from poets attempting lofty poetic experiments with heavy themes, say, philosophy, dark contemplations, or even of expressing mundane themes with manipulation of language to the point of boredom.
I might be too effusive about this collection, but the poems are somewhat a reverse of the type of poetry I am familiar with, the type that assumes a smug pose, overwrought in structure and expressions, tense in mood, brain-tasking—poems considered as literary gold-standard. We all know them.
But the collection suffers too. I will get to that shortly.
These poems suggest that Adesanya is attuned to creating from playfulness and restiveness, say, about being a romantic and sensitive lover, or occupying herself with existential concerns, or just musing over a reality that bears pressure on the creative process, with humor too. In this case, poetry becomes an act—art too—of making sense of the world, a spiteful response too, to that which tugs on reflections.
Besides its shortage on linguistic ambitions, it is an impressive publication that adds the author to a list of new age Nigerian poets surprising the world with poetic resourcefulness—Dami Ajayi and his dazzling devotion to allusions drawn from medicine, pop culture, social media, street lingos; Jumoke Verissimo and her treatment of the human condition like a tales-by-moonlight affair; and the textural lightness of Sadiq Alabi’s poems that break Remi Raji-like ideas into new age intelligibility.
On technique and stylistic ambition, I would score the collection a six-over-ten. The free-flowing poems, especially “Here Lies Lust”, “McHunger”, “Ms. Adventure”, “Crackles if Soulful Melody” are impressive exceptions. An insistence on end rhymes is charming on some poems—“Loafday”, “Iyke the Kite”, “Forever Living” but distracting on others like “It’s Changed the Same”, and “Sleepless Nights.” This point may be ignored, as I tend to be cynical about poems that have structural allegiance to European poetic forms. I just want the flow, not technical mascara. These days, I associate them with original photos made less original by Instagram filters.
Anyone that picks this book will notice I’ve ignored commenting on the “serious” poems like “Death Left You a Note”, “Kahlo’s Picasso”, and the praise song, “Thank a Brave Soldier.” If I edited the work, I would leave them out. They got in the way of my amusement. In my world, Kama Sutra is not compatible with Karate.
One more risqué poem, and we can end this piece. “Play With Me” might be the advances that led to “Jack and Jill"
Love me like a butterfly
Fragile wings and colorful bits
Touch my soft parts and electrify
Spill your pollens and let us bloom
…
Love my (sic) like a bestseller
My intricate lines, yours to explore
Flip my pages like a sheet propeller
Show what you know and learn my ropes
With Musings of a Tangled Tongue, Adesanya registers herself as a fun poet. If I ever have the right to suggest what her next collection should be, I’d say make it a single-theme work, on either Love or Motherhood. Or a paean on Sex. It will sell.
A very interesting book. I heartily recommend.
For a person who has no real prior relationship with poems, I must confess I immediately connected with some of the poems in 'Prittle, Prattle & Pickled' that expressed my lifestyle. This book is most appreciated when you read with an African mindset or language. Excellent piece of art.
I will be looking forward to Yemi's next book
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