Besaydoo: Poems -- Yalie Saweda Kamara, Paperback Shelby Fiddis Her grown daughter shows up

Her grown daughter shows up on her doorstep--jobless and homeless

Elora has spent years resenting the royals of Pumpkin Hollow

get the ship in working order

But when he meets the new nanny to the crown prince

Besaydoo: Poems -- Yalie Saweda Kamara, Paperback Shelby Fiddis Her grown daughter shows upSelected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara's Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home as place, as people, as body, and as language. A griot is a historian, a living repository of communal legacies with "a story pulsing in every blood cell." In Besaydoo, Kamara serves as griot for the Freeborn in Oakland, the Sierra Leonean in California, the girl straddling womanhood, the woman re discovering