Eliot of Lagos
Ernest O. JésùyẹmíPoetry, literature, and faith.
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Once Upon an Egg-Seller
In a newsletter that I published toward the end of last year, I spoke of “the rough disgruntled back of the year.” 2025 was a rough year. In this letter, I want to provide some detail about the difficulty of the previous year, because it is...
The virtuous difficulty of Geoffrey Hill
I planned for this essay to coincide with a decade of Geoffrey Hill’s death, June 30, 2026. I expected to see other essays in his memory. I did not see any. But I was held up in a camp for much of June. I wrote the essay in July and have de...
Narcissus’ Prayer
It’s a mood and a phase, but it’s one that recurs. For some weeks now, I have felt uncomfortable with the “too-muchness” (Celan’s word) of myself. I feel my intensity as a burden, as torment. Good thing is that my tongue has also loosened,...
Eunuch Time
What does it mean to covet utterance and not have it; to feel an urge (though even this is dry, a dry urge) toward speech and yet be speechless? In the life of a poet, the urge to speak is often an incitement to speech, it is grace—what doe...
Getting Things Done
Presently in my life, I am interested in the art by which things get done. I am interested in action: in my case, in the action that is thinking, or writing; I would like to see things through.
“If someone would but teach me how to isolate...
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Ernest O. Jésùyẹmí writes from Nigeria. Work in AGNI, Kenyon Review, The Sun, Common Ground Review, Mooncalves: An Anthology of Weird Fiction, and elsewhere. He is the author of A Pocket of Genesis (Variant Literature, 2023).
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