Book Review: Where the Light Enters You By Chimezie Chika
The poem ruminates on history and religion, and in the end, we are brought into an epiphany: “The heart is a sack of sin/its weight sinks the spirit.” What does the poet refigure as sin, in such an old-fashioned sense? “Sin”, in the poet’s reckoning, is “when a brother sinks a dagger in/your soul . . .”