Somebody has to tell the truth sometime, whatever that truth may be.
Her words pull the forgotten among us back into the lightning of our eyes." -Nikky Finney.
A poet who "refuses to tiptoe" she enters and exits the page sometimes with short concise imagery, sometimes in the arms of delicate memoir.
Searing with truths from the modern day world she is unafraid of the twelve foot waves that such honesties always manifest. "Ekere Tallie\'s new work \' Karma\'s Footsteps \' is as fierce with fight songs as it is with love songs. \' Karma\'s Footsteps \' brims with things that must be said and turns the volume up, loud, giving silence its last rites.
These are songs of life in all its violent difficulty and beauty; songs of fury, songs of love.
In this, her debut full collection, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie offers up a body of work that bears its scars proudly, firm in the knowledge that each is evidence of a wound survived.
Somebody has to tell the truth sometime, whatever that truth may be
