LEADER 03193nam 2200541 450 001 9910787877503321 005 20230803195435.0 010 $a0-8032-5444-X 010 $a0-8032-5443-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000544962 035 $a(EBL)1642546 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001134285 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11722398 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134285 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11162344 035 $a(PQKB)11380653 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1642546 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000544962 100 $a20140311h20142014 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMadman at Kilifi /$fClifton Gachagua ; foreword by Kwame Dawes 210 1$aLincoln, Nebraska :$cUniversity of Nebraska Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (157 p.) 225 1 $aThe African Poetry Book Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8032-4962-4 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aA 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 330 $aClifton Gachagua's collection Madman at Kilifi, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, concerns itself with the immediacy of cultures in flux, cybercommunication and the language of consumerism, polyglot politics and intrigue, sexual ambivalence and studied whimsy, and the mind of a sensitive, intelligent, and curious poet who stands in the midst of it all. Gachagua's is a world fully grounded in the postmodern Kenyan cultural cauldron, a world in which people speak with "satellite mouths," with bodies that are "singing machines," and in which t 410 0$aAfrican poetry book series. 606 $aAfrican poetry (English)$y21st century 607 $aKenya$vPoetry 615 0$aAfrican poetry (English) 676 $a811.52 700 $aGachagua$b Clifton$01582186 701 $aDawes$b Kwame Senu Neville$f1962-$01464419 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787877503321 996 $aMadman at Kilifi$93864315 997 $aUNINA