Aubade At Night or Serenade in The Morning by taofeek ayeyemi

Taofeek Ayeyemi’s collection, Aubade at Night or Serenade in the Morning, without fear, calls out police corruption, abuse, and exploitation in Nigeria. These powerful and brave poems weave together nation and body, political and personal, loathing and reverence for a homeland that is “…a clot of spilled blood / and everyone has his fingers / reeking of redness.” Taofeek's collection is simply stunning, haunting, needed and beautifully so; each poem leaves you wrecked and in awe. Poem by poem, Ayeyemi builds a bruised and wounded world in which we understand that the unfathomable exists, but that hope will not be crippled as “the power we tuck in our minds will make a walking stick / it will make for the journey an undying light. call it a legacy.”