Madman at Kilifi
eBook - ePub

Madman at Kilifi

  1. 76 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Madman at Kilifi

About this book

Clifton Gachagua's collection Madman at Kilifi, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, concerns itself with the immediacy of cultures in flux, cybercommunication and the language of consumerism, polyglot politics and intrigue, sexual ambivalence and studied whimsy, and the mind of a sensitive, intelligent, and curious poet who stands in the midst of it all.

Gachagua's is a world fully grounded in the postmodern Kenyan cultural cauldron, a world in which people speak with "satellite mouths, " with bodies that are "singing machines, " and in which the most we can do is "collide against each other." Here light is graceful, and we glow like undiscovered galaxies and shifting matter. And here as well, we find new expression in a poetry that moves as we do.


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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword: The Cartographer of Water
  7. Charcoal on Canvas
  8. A Slow Boat to China
  9. Satellite
  10. At the Confucius Center
  11. Promenade
  12. The Lights in Zanzibar
  13. Eternally Distracted
  14. Ghostwriter: A Found Poem
  15. Shakara
  16. Memorial
  17. The Nobel Prize for Medicine
  18. On a Terrace Balcony in Abuja
  19. Algorithm
  20. Reality Television
  21. September
  22. Principles of Variations
  23. Otto Gross
  24. Central Park
  25. Desertion
  26. New House
  27. The Anointing
  28. I Could Smell Them
  29. Lost Stones
  30. Travel Guide
  31. It’s Not the Same as When You Crush Paper Flowers
  32. A Bronze God, or a Letter on Demand
  33. Birds
  34. Imitation Bodies
  35. My Sisters Used to Put Me in Dresses
  36. Unclaimed
  37. Mountain
  38. Strange Male
  39. Merchant of Flesh
  40. Playhouse Lane
  41. Let Us Now Talk about Your Waist, Saying
  42. Dancers
  43. A Benzedrine Hallucination
  44. Madman at Kilifi
  45. Young
  46. Reclaiming a Beloved City
  47. The Ante-Chamber
  48. Imagine Those Slender Cigarettes
  49. Concerto of the Unconcerned
  50. Galilee
  51. A Genre of Isolation
  52. Bride
  53. Treason
  54. Cucu Njeri
  55. The Latrine of Giardia
  56. The Bin
  57. “Metrosexual”
  58. Approaching Siaya
  59. About the Author