Blood and Water: ọbara na mmiri, by Catherine Okoronkwo Maurice Scully Arshi’s poems resist fixity

Arshi’s poems resist fixity

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is recognized as one of the great poets of 20th century European modernism

and her realisation that both are imprisoned in a modern myth

and longer poems which attempt to propel themselves towards the transcendent

experimentalism

Blood and Water: ọbara na mmiri, by Catherine Okoronkwo Maurice Scully Arshi’s poems resist fixityBlood and Water begins with an ordinary everyday scene that many who knows what it is like to live in an inter generational home will be able to identify with. The African overtones draws you into lives that are real and gritty. One can almost smell the tobacco and taste the goat pepper soup and the stews pleasurable moments. But even this cannot take away from the abuse and the tacit silent collusion by the elders; the entitled folks who struts