Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2025 David Inshaw I long for a full

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Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola<br><b>Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2025</b> David Inshaw I long for a fullStrange Beach is the debut collection from poet and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola. Intimate and erotic, ecological and philosophical, the poems in Strange Beach illuminate the body as a porous landscape across which existential dramas, filial fractures, and sexual reckonings occur. The collection ventures across the same 'Atlantic Ocean' as Claudia Rankine's 'Citizen', which is the same 'Atlantic Ocean' in Lowell's 'Life Studies', to reveal a