The Evolution of a Saint and other selected poems - Paperback

by Chisaraokwu Ngozi Asomugha (Author)

The Evolution of a Saint at once provokes, engages, and inspires its readers with enchanting and rhythmic free verse. With a storyteller's voice, the poet reflects on her bicultural, bilingual upbringing in southern California to the pulpits of the Christian church, where politics and religion collide-revealing a mosaic of the complexities of life, faith, love and loss.

Author Biography

Chisaraokwu "Chisara" N. Asomugha is the eldest of four children raised in southern California by doting parents who emigrated from Nigeria after the Biafran War. A pediatrician by training, she has served as a minister in the US and overseas, been a political appointee and has been published in healthcare journals. She's a proud alum of Stanford University.