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Gachagua Clifton |
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Titolo |
Madman at Kilifi / / Clifton Gachagua ; foreword by Kwame Dawes |
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Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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0-8032-5444-X |
0-8032-5443-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (157 p.) |
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Collana |
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The African Poetry Book Series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DawesKwame Senu Neville <1962-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African poetry (English) - 21st century |
Electronic books. |
Kenya Poetry |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword: The Cartographer of Water; Charcoal on Canvas; A Slow Boat to China; Satellite; At the Confucius Center; Promenade; The Lights in Zanzibar; Eternally Distracted; Ghostwriter: A Found Poem; Shakara; Memorial; The Nobel Prize for Medicine; On a Terrace Balcony in Abuja; Algorithm; Reality Television; September; Principles of Variations; Otto Gross; Central Park; Desertion; New House; The Anointing; I Could Smell Them; Lost Stones; Travel Guide; It's Not the Same as When You Crush Paper Flowers |
A Bronze God, or a Letter on DemandBirds; Imitation Bodies; My Sisters Used to Put Me in Dresses; Unclaimed; Mountain; Strange Male; Merchant of Flesh; Playhouse Lane; Let Us Now Talk about Your Waist, Saying; Dancers; A Benzedrine Hallucination; Madman at Kilifi; Young; Reclaiming a Beloved City; The Ante-Chamber; Imagine Those Slender Cigarettes; Concerto of the Unconcerned; Galilee; A Genre of Isolation; Bride; Treason; Cucu Njeri; The Latrine of Giardia; The Bin; "Metrosexual"; Approaching Siaya; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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 t |
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