Stray
eBook - ePub

Stray

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Stray

About this book

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 migrationā€”migration in a literal, geographic sense; migration oflanguage from one lexicon to another;migration of a poem toward proseā€”and the instability of the creativeexperience in the broader sense.

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Information

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781496205582
eBook ISBN
9781496207791
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
African Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword by Kwame Dawes
  7. /
  8. Preamble to Stray
  9. All the Merry Hills
  10. In the Name of the Tongue
  11. In the Name of the Father
  12. Holy Ghost
  13. Catechism
  14. Ota Benga Returns to the Congo
  15. //
  16. You Donā€™t Want the Light to Find Out What Youā€™ve Done
  17. Diallo
  18. We Must Return
  19. The Last Time I Saw Annamore Tsonga
  20. ///
  21. Preamble to Fever
  22. The Cunning
  23. It Came to Pass
  24. A Town on the Frontier
  25. Feasts for the Blind
  26. Farther Inland
  27. Far Country
  28. My Dear Menshevik
  29. As a Moonflower Curious of the Night
  30. A Hunger
  31. The City
  32. ////
  33. Preamble to In the Case Regarding My Brother
  34. Requiem: In the Case Regarding My Brother
  35. ////
  36. Mugarandega
  37. In the Throat of the Heavenā€™s Guide
  38. Acknowledgments
  39. Note
  40. About Bernard Farai Matambo
  41. Series List

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