
- 134 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono engages actively with a diasporic world: Otiono is equally at home critiquing petroculture in Nigeria and in Canada. His work straddles multiple poetic traditions and places African intellectual history at the forefront of an engagement with Western poetics.
The poems in this selection are drawn from Otiono's two published collections, Voices in the Rainbow, and Love in a Time of Nightmares, and the volume includes previously unpublished new poems. Peter Midgley's introduction contextualizes Otiono's work within the frame of physical and spiritual mobility, diaspora, and newer critical frames like Afropolitanism, attending to form as well as his political engagement. The volume concludes with an interview of the poet by Chris Dunton that touches on the nature of poetry, language loss, and diasporic identities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Biographical Note
- Introduction: Absent Allusions and the Politics of Dislocation in the Work of Nduka Otiono, Peter Midgley
- New Poems
- from Voices in the Rainbow
- from Love in a Time of Nightmares
- Postscript
- Afterword: Chris Dunton Interviews Nduka Otiono
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions