Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2025 David Inshaw Almontaser's polyvocal collection sneaks artifacts

Almontaser's polyvocal collection sneaks artifacts to and from worlds

and explores how we can use our creativity to break this cycle

of writing

This collection of 200 tankas has no Great Purpose

We're still here in the silence

Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola<br><b>Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2025</b> David Inshaw Almontaser's polyvocal collection sneaks artifactsStrange 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