Ode to Our Frailty

Between these pages is a safe haven for hopelessness, for all the thoughts & experiences that make us feel like we’re too frail for this world.

Ode to our frailty is a lyrical song celebrating, through revelation, the fragilities and traumatic growths that shape us. This is a book that demands radical honesty in every line. Ode to our frailty enshrines the vulnerability of our barest states of being. Gazing into the chaotic-beauty of internal conflict, these poetic confrontations traverse the terrains of self-abuse, grief, loss, and identity, blighting empty pages with ink confessions.

Sankara “Le Prince Héritier” Olama-Yai is an Afro-diasporic, Queering, Nonbinary & Non-defineable author, currently residing in the DC/Maryland area. They are the author of Ebony Wings published by Vital Narrative Press. Formerly working as staff at The Writer’s Center, a nonprofit in Bethesda, as well as being a reader for Frontier poetry and Poet Lore, they now work as a freelance editor and writing coach through one-on-one virtual classes for emerging writers trying to publish. Their poems have been published online and in print in About Place Journal, Black Lesbian Collective, Rising Phoenix Press and more. Their interests include modeling, traveling, shogi and Afro-futurist art & literature.