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Buttonhook Press Chapbook Series
Mixed Forms: Haibun
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Taofeek Ayeyemi
Dust and Rust
With a Foreword by Rich Youmans
About the writer:
Taofeek “Aswagaawy” Ayeyemi is a Nigerian lawyer, writer, and author of the chapbook Tongueless Secrets (Ethel Press, 2021) and a collection aubade at night or serenade in the morning (Flowersong Press, 2021). A BotN and Pushcart Prize Nominee, his works have appeared in Modern Haiku, cho, Lucent Dreaming, Akitsu Quarterly, Frogpond, ARTmosterrific, Banyan Review, the QuillS and elsewhere. He won the 2021 Loft Books Flash Fiction Competition, 2nd Place in 2021 Porter House Review Poetry Contest, and Honorable Mention in 2021 Oku-no-hosomichi Soka Matsubara Haiku Contest and 2020 Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize among others.
Image: Diana’s Vow, main panel. Prehistoric rock art site in eastern Zimbabwe showing a complex set of animal and human symbols and socio-religious associations. All part of their socio-religious system. Possibly the best prehistorical painted panel in Zimbabwe. Photograph by Robert Stewart Burrett. 2014. By free license.
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