Theresa Lola's debut poetry collection In Search of Equilibrium is
an extraordinary and exacting study of death and grieving. Where the
algorithms of the body and the memory fail, Lola finds the words that
will piece together the binary code of family and restart the recovery
program. In doing so, these unflinching poems work towards the
hard-wired truths of life itself - finding hope in survival, lines of
rescue in faith, a stubborn equilibrium in the equations of loss and
renewal.
"Theresa Lola's poems never fail to surprise with her breath-taking
ability to create unexpected imagery; they never fail to move as she
laments the last years of a loved one; and they never fail to delight
with the transformative and healing power of poetry to create beauty." -
Bernardine Evaristo