Judging A Book By Its Cover

I have been revisiting this Faber and Faber cover for months. Entranced by its design, it’s colours and the bold use of words. But it is only recently that I was able to encapsulate by fascination in one word: tricolon! Of course, strictly speaking this is not a tricolon but a tripartite structure that echoes the classic tricolon of past, present, future.

Akwaeke Emezi - cover Freshwater - Faber and Faber

I HAVE LIVED
MANY LIVES
INSIDE THIS
BODY.

I LIVED MANY
LIVES BEFROE
THEY PUT ME
IN THIS BODY.

I WILL LIVE
MANY LIVES
WHEN THEY TAKE
ME OUT OF IT.

Freshwater Akwaeke Emezi

And so for day 2680
15.04.2014

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