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Things We Lost in the Fire

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Ijeoma Umbebinyuo
2019
Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
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This pocket-sized paperback is one of the thirty titles published for 2019 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2019 is Speech and Silence. From 19–24 November 2019, 30 invited poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme Speech and Silence. Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.

Table of Contents

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Title Page, Copyright

pp. 1-4

Contents

pp. 5-9

Confessions

pp. 10-11

“Where does depression take you?”

pp. 12-13

The Delicate Acts of Survival

pp. 14-19

“how quiet can we make this woman?”

pp. 20-21

“Tell me, at night”

pp. 22-23

“Nne’m, my mother”

pp. 24-25

Nneka

pp. 26-27

“A God as woman as me”

pp. 28-29

Brave

pp. 30-31

Phoenix

pp. 32-33

“Remember”

pp. 34-35

Survival

pp. 36-37

Conversations with Broken Girls

pp. 38-41

“twice broken”

pp. 42-43

“The woman”

pp. 44-45

“Nobody warned you”

pp. 46-47

“Your son does not know”

pp. 48-49

Nne

pp. 50-51

Cruel

pp. 52-53

“Bless the daughters who sat”

pp. 54-55

“Your mother was your first mirror”

pp. 56-57

“There are many ways to love yourself”

pp. 58-59

Five Languages

pp. 60-63

Iya Femi

pp. 64-67

Yellow Fever

pp. 68-69

Trigger

pp. 70-71

Scarred

pp. 72-73

Splinter

pp. 74-75

“Pardon me for breaking myself in half for you”

pp. 76-77

Things We Lost in the Fire

pp. 78-79

About the Author

pp. 80-82
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