Heiress republishes Carl Terver’s chapbook For Girl at Rubicon.
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Carl Terver’s For Girl at Rubicon was first published in September 2020 in the now-defunct Praxis magazine. It was positively received and made the personal “best books of the year” list of readers, inspiring a few poets, too. In her review, “Memories as Crevices Entombed with Loss” published in The Shallow Tales Review, Torkwase Igbana appraises it to critical acclaim. Heiress republishes the chapbook to make it available to the public as it is no longer available by its first publisher.
This second edition comes with a new introduction by Ancci and three new poems at the end. The title poem “For Girl at Rubicon,” which Terver wrote in his preface to the first edition, that “it marked a major shift in his poetry writing,” was recently performed by Suur Su’eddie Vershima Agema in the KSR Gazelles Project. Till date, For Girl at Rubicon remains an underground classic among readers.
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“For Girl at Rubicon is beautifully written and testifies to Carl Terver’s long-standing dedication and passion for poetry and poetics. Every reader of poetry and writing generally will find their own surprises and pleasures in this remarkable chapbook, which marked a particular watershed in Nigerian poetry of English expression. Terver has made quintessential his style; he now has to continue the refinement and extension of that style and elevate his poetry to the heights by tinkering with his devices and his perception. In For Girl at Rubicon, Terver apparently has voted for refinement, but the achievement of the title poem and a score of other poems in the chapbook subtly, yet boldly, calls for even more rebelling and further image stock-taking. In the murky waters of contemporary Nigerian poetry, Carl Terver is a prize diver. He wallows in the harvest: the poetic catch, while we prepare for the celebration, waiting for a delightfully delicious poetry.”
—Ismail Bala
“Carl Terver pays homage to memory in this collection, bringing together so much from the personal to the communal. His allusions are couched in a history many Nigerians will relate to. More than this, Carl weaves words into a fabric that several readers will wrap their minds around. Indeed, For Girl at Rubicon is one for us all; a fine chapbook and a good read.”
—S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema, multiple award-winning author of Memory and the Call of Waters (Winner, Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize 2022 and Finalist, Nigeria Prize for Literature 2022)
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