I wanted to teach you my name by Ọlákìtán T. Aládéṣuyì

Ọlákìtán T. Aládéṣuyì does not mince words in her debut poetry collection, I wanted to teach you my name. In poems at once interrogative of society and the self, Aládéṣuyì observes the archaic traditions supporting patriarchal systems, the absurdity of political systems that feign change, the everyday injustices meted out on women and girls in the name of love, and the deepening apathy that continually replaces our should-be rage. But still there is an air of hope, a reverence for the strength it takes to become ourselves even in—and against—this landscape, and the promise that you, too, deserve to be home and enough.