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Madman at Kilifi / / Clifton Gachagua ; foreword by Kwame Dawes



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Autore: Gachagua Clifton Visualizza persona
Titolo: Madman at Kilifi / / Clifton Gachagua ; foreword by Kwame Dawes Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (157 p.)
Disciplina: 811.52
Soggetto topico: African poetry (English) - 21st century
Soggetto geografico: Kenya Poetry
Altri autori: DawesKwame Senu Neville <1962->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 t
Titolo autorizzato: Madman at Kilifi  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8032-5444-X
0-8032-5443-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825070103321
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Serie: African poetry book series.