Architecture of Dust

Architecture of Dust is a collection of poems that transport the reader on a literary journey of discovery through loss, love, family dispersion, and immigration. These poems offer an unflinching portrait of colonial violence, cultural disruptions, and racism, while making innovative leaps of faith with metaphor and language. Yet they are suffused with an alchemical admixture of tenderness, violence, despair, and hope, as testament to our resilience. Chike Nzerue brings a fresh, wild imagination to a chronicle of life's joys and travails, nature's beauty and treacheries, ushering the reader into worlds peopled with the triumphant, the wounded in their craters, and the healers who tend them with hope and love.