Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2025 David Inshaw We're still here in the

We're still here in the silence

and all his later revised versions

the memory of love

This collection of 200 tankas has no Great Purpose

Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola<br><b>Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2025</b> David Inshaw We're still here in theStrange 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