Logarithm: Irenosen Okojie's Poetic Essay in Afterall Journal 52

Irenosen Okojie's essay 'Logarithm' was published on November 11, 2021, as part of Afterall Journal 52. The text is a lyrical, fragmented list of images and objects—a skillet, rye bread, a river, a chintz skirt, a memory growing tentacles in a jar, an umbilical cord over a lampshade, wrists marked with soot, a table, a mirror, a cut, a pulp, a cherimoya, a cassava, a yam, a pulse, a defect, smoke, a magician, a light bulb, fingerprints as hostages, a vow, burial soil, a graveyard slab, a trampoline, a leaking valve, a golden cup, and a net. The essay is available only to subscribers; individual access is via University of Chicago Press. The piece explores themes of domesticity, memory, and the body through surreal, associative language.