Uche Nduka uses innovative poetic techniques to challenge the reader while investigating what he calls unexplored linguistic trenches. Instead of repulsion, the reader learns to trust this destabilizing experience, riding with it into vast new perspectives that range in focus from the quotidian assurance of a lover’ s embrace to the bilious taste of sudden political violence. Nduka has thrilled readers over numerous splendidly received prose and poetry titles, including  eel on reef  (2007),  Ijele  (2012),  Nine East  (2013),  Living in Public  (2018), and most recently, 2020’ s  Facing You.