{"product_id":"unravel-isbn-9780771013966","title":"Unravel","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry • A \u003ci\u003eCalgary Herald\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller • Named a Best Canadian Poetry Book of 2025 by CBC Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA poetic exploration of the cyclical philosophy of dismantling and remaking, \u003ci\u003eUnravel\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving and inventive rove through what could happen in the deconstructed aftermath of person and world.\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry • A \u003ci\u003eCalgary Herald\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller • Named a Best Canadian Poetry Book of 2025 by CBC Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Although composed of ever fragmenting parts, \u003ci\u003eUnravel \u003c\/i\u003efeels complete. Grounded in centuries of literary and scientific references—from the Bible to Jacques Derrida and contemporary therapists—these lines are dense and reinvigorating. ‘\u003ci\u003eI became a question \/\/ for myself\u003c\/i\u003e,’ Oloruntoba writes, quoting Saint Augustine, whose \u003ci\u003eConfessions \u003c\/i\u003eare felt throughout this similarly forceful and expansive record of self-exploration.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Oloruntoba’s use of forms such as the cento and the found poem is indicative of the volume’s overall tendency to unravel historic approaches or understandings and recombine them . . . On a linguistic level, this unravelling takes the form of breaking down binaries (see, for example, the early poem “Contronym”) and locating the play in syntactical forms.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For everyone who’s been cautioned they’re overthinking things:...\u003ci\u003eUnravel \u003c\/i\u003eis a seeker’s book, exploring making and unmaking, doing and undoing, the twin existential horrors of ending and endlessness. It is heartfelt and clever, probing and funny, putting God and gods in its sights alongside other human creations—language, art, drama.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Tyee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“'Everything is coda in a never-ending world,’ writes Tolu Oloruntoba in his spectacular third book. Spiralling through a myriad of histories, experiences, and dictions, the language’s momentum is modulated by Oloruntoba’s deft control of line and syntax. This tension, this craft, enables Oloruntoba to slow and to explore the bewildering and fascinating ruptures in self-making, world-making. This is symphonic and soaring poetry.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Eduardo C. Corral, author of \u003ci\u003eGuillotine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnravel\u003c\/i\u003e by Tolu Oloruntoba is a dope and fascinating collection of poetry that navigates the intersections of identity, migration, fatherhood, and history. A vivid poetic digging in the crates, it threads through the many layers of Whitman’s multitudes: the Nigerian self, riffing on memories of home; the immigrant self, navigating displacement and belonging; the father self, reflecting on his new born daughter; and the literary self, referencing a rich reading history. \u003ci\u003eUnravel\u003c\/i\u003e lingers in the mind as a testament to Oloruntoba’s ability to blend intellect and emotion into unforgettable verse.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of \u003ci\u003eFelon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“This stunning collection of poems is a searing, prophetic commentary on the banalities of late modern life. The language is shot through with philosophical brilliance and spiritual energy. These poems play with diction in a way that is deadly serious—even apocalyptic, unveiling something of the world and ourselves.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—James K.A. Smith, Calvin University, author of \u003ci\u003eHow (Not) To Be Secular\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow to Inhabit Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eTOLU OLORUNTOBA was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, where he studied and practiced medicine. He is the author of two collections of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Junta of Happenstance\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General’s Literary Award and \u003ci\u003eEach One a Furnace\u003c\/i\u003e, a Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalist. He gave the 2022 League of Canadian Poets Anne Szumigalski Lecture, and is a Civitella Ranieri fellow.\u003cb\u003eSTIGMATA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot to be removed until\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003edelivered to the consumer.\u003c\/i\u003e “This,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis my body,” Mimi the well-loved\u003cbr\u003eseems to say in cruciform repose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomeone had had to have\u003cbr\u003eput the \u003ci\u003edol-\u003c\/i\u003e in pareidolia, the barn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof polyester into you, many Easters\u003cbr\u003eago. You, like I, know the dolors,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe corruptibility of the self. Cheeks blued\u003cbr\u003eand finger-printed, scalp pocked\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewith fingernails, mouth packed\u003cbr\u003ewith arcane detritus. 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