Content Warning

Akwaeke Emezi's debut poetry collection, "Content Warning: Everything," travels through a landscape of belonging and homesickness, tracing a path from desire to surrender, and from abuse to survival. Crafted from both divine and earthly materials, these poems explore the essence of a self that resists diminishment, intertwining Igbo spirituality with Christian mythologies. Readers will encounter a chosen family that reimagines biblical figures, navigating themes of trauma, identity, and resilience through vivid and evocative language.

Written from a spiritfirst perspective, the collection distills the radiant power and profound grief of a mischievous and wanting deity embodied. It offers an intimate glimpse into a world where personal experience merges with the mythical, creating a unique exploration of selfhood that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.