Stray
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-0558-2 (ISBN)
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Zimbabwean writer Bernard Farai Matambo’s poems in Stray favor a prose-shaped line as they uncover the contradictory impulses in search of emotional and intellectual truth. Stray not only captures the essence of identity but also eloquently articulates the pain of displacement and speaks to the vulnerability of Africans who have left their native continent. This collection delicately examines the theme of migration—migration in a literal, geographic sense; migration of language from one lexicon to another; migration of a poem toward prose—and the instability of the creative experience in the broader sense.
Bernard Farai Matambo is an assistant professor of creative writing at Oberlin College. His prose and poetry have appeared in several publications, including Copper Nickel, New Orleans Review, Ohioana Quarterly, Pleiades, and Plume.
Foreword by Kwame Dawes
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Preamble to Stray
All the Merry Hills
In the Name of the Tongue
In the Name of the Father
Holy Ghost
Catechism
Ota Benga Returns to the Congo
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You Don’t Want the Light to Find Out What You’ve Done
Diallo
We Must Return
The Last Time I Saw Annamore Tsonga
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Preamble to Fever
The Cunning
It Came to Pass
A Town on the Frontier
Feasts for the Blind
Farther Inland
Far Country
My Dear Menshevik
As a Moonflower Curious of the Night
A Hunger
The City
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Preamble to In the Case Regarding My Brother
Requiem: In the Case Regarding My Brother
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Mugarandega
In the Throat of the Heaven’s Guide
Acknowledgments
Note
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.02.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | African Poetry Book |
| Vorwort | Kwame Dawes |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-0558-8 / 1496205588 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-0558-2 / 9781496205582 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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