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Salt and Morning

Poems

By Ines Okafor

Sixty-one poems on leaving, and on what leaving costs the ones who stay.

A debut collection about migration, mothers, and the strange grammar of a language you learn after you are grown.

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Salt and Morning gathers sixty-one poems written across nine years and three countries.

Okafor writes in the space between an inherited language and an acquired one, and the collection keeps returning to that seam — the phone calls home, the untranslatable word, the mother who will not say she is proud in a language her daughter can hear.

Spare, unsentimental, and quietly furious in places, this is a first collection with the composure of a fourth.

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Ines Okafor

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Ines Okafor is a poet and translator. Her work has appeared in literary journals across three continents. Salt and Morning is her first collection.

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