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DisPlace : The Poetry of Nduka Otiono /
"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...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterloo :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- Today, Time Is the Eyeglass I Wear
- My Lips Bear Witness to the Blood that Irrigates my Heart
- Untangling Cobwebs in the Mind
- Dad (Jan 29, 1930-May 5, 2009)
- It's Not Just Another June 12
- In Memoriam: Sole Sister
- Footsteps of an Approaching Dream
- A Chain of Requiems
- from Voices in the Rainbow
- Phase One: Desert Crossing
- I The Images Take Wing
- II Through Scorpion-Stings of Suffering
- Phase Two: Rhapsody of a Lunatic
- I Rising Song
- II Galloping in the Gallows
- III After the Nooze
- IV Soul of My Madness
- Phase Four: Lynched Illusions
- Who Can Blow the Smoke Away?
- Phase Five: Midnight Voices
- Midnight Voices
- Phase Six: Serenades
- Ashes of Valentine
- Windsong
- Phase Seven: Moon Dance
- This Earth Is Ours
- Soot' Sayer
- from Love in a Time of Nightmares
- Part One: Rivers Within
- Introit: Rivers Within
- Rooms We Live In
- Grandma's Pipe
- Paint the Sky
- A Memory of Berkeley
- Love in a Time of Nightmares
- Archive Fever
- Lonely Room at Christmas
- Part Two: Homeland Securities
- Procession
- High Walls and Barb Wires
- Oil and Guns
- Homeland Securities
- A Fever in the Blood
- Part Three: Four Water Poems
- I Thinking of Íyí Ádà
- II Teardrops
- III Meeting the Pacific at Point Reyes
- IV The Sea Bears Many Secrets
- For Mama Kweke
- Postscript
- April Child
- Afterword: Chris Dunton Interviews Nduka Otiono
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions