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Elevate
Elevate is a cleaner, sweeping stardust from the floor of the universe, the rust shaken off when you rehearse, a verse from the very first oral scripture.
A picture, taken by blind men with no hands, sand dunes, oceans and desert bloom. It is you, dues paid, blues, bended guitar strings, new days, rings around Saturn, vinyl on replay, spinning records, DJ, and breaking them. Closed fists bump, two boys, hoods up, goes to the library. A baby sleeping, humanity dreaming. This is poetry. Whatever you want it to be.
A picture, taken by blind men with no hands, sand dunes, oceans and desert bloom. It is you, dues paid, blues, bended guitar strings, new days, rings around Saturn, vinyl on replay, spinning records, DJ, and breaking them. Closed fists bump, two boys, hoods up, goes to the library. A baby sleeping, humanity dreaming. This is poetry. Whatever you want it to be.
40 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 16, 2014
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About the author
J.J. Bola
8 books147 followersA Kinshasa born, London raised writer, poet, educator and workshop facilitator. London and UK based, but also international; Paris, Brussels, Boston etc, most recently San Francisco and Oakland, where he won the Oakland Poetry Slam. Performs regularly at shows and festivals such as Tongue Fu, Vocals & Verses, Chill Pill, The Round House, Ventnor Fringe, etc as well as Universities; SOAS, UCL, Oxford, Lincoln, University of Birmingham, Standford University and Merrit College in the Bay and other public institutions. Also includes various Radio and Television appearances.
JJ Bola has successfully published two books of poetry Elevate and Daughter of the Sun (ebook). His third, and latest, is his most comprehensive poetry collection WORD, which was launched to a sold out crowd, during Refugee Week on the 18th of June 2015 at Dalston Roof Park. JJ Bola’s work is centred on a narrative of empowerment, humanisation, healing of trauma as well as discovery of self through art, literature and poetry. Creating the increasingingly popular addage, 'hype your writers like you do you rappers', he believes that the true purpose of poetry (art) is to expose the reality of this world and how to, most importantly, survive it.
[taken from author's website]
JJ Bola has successfully published two books of poetry Elevate and Daughter of the Sun (ebook). His third, and latest, is his most comprehensive poetry collection WORD, which was launched to a sold out crowd, during Refugee Week on the 18th of June 2015 at Dalston Roof Park. JJ Bola’s work is centred on a narrative of empowerment, humanisation, healing of trauma as well as discovery of self through art, literature and poetry. Creating the increasingingly popular addage, 'hype your writers like you do you rappers', he believes that the true purpose of poetry (art) is to expose the reality of this world and how to, most importantly, survive it.
[taken from author's website]
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March 15, 2015
Although I did enjoy this, I felt a lot of the poems didn't really talk to me specifically, which is more down to my own preference than to any fault of JJ Bola. Hence I can only give it three stars.
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