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Uche Nduka uses innovative poetic techniques to challenge the reader while investigating what he calls unexplored linguistic trenches. Instead of repulsion, the reader learns to trust this destabilizing experience, riding with it into vast new perspectives that range in focus from the quotidian assurance of a lover’ s embrace to the bilious taste of sudden political violence. Nduka has thrilled readers over numerous splendidly received prose and poetry titles, including  eel on reef  (2007),  Ijele  (2012),  Nine East  (2013),  Living in Public  (2018), and most recently, 2020’ s  Facing You.

Uche Nduka, poet and essayist, is the author of 12 volumes of poems, of which the latest are Living in Public (Kristiania, 2018) and Facing You (City Lights, 2020). A NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry, his writing has been translated into Italian, Finnish, Arabic, German, Turkish, and Romanian. Nduka taught African Literature for seven years at the University of Bremen. He presently lives and teaches in New York City.