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PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
ISBN-100803249624
ISBN-139780803249622
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Book TitleMadman at Kilifi
Number of Pages78 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, African
Publication Year2014
GenrePoetry
AuthorClifton Gachagua
Book SeriesAfrican Poetry Book Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Reviews"The judges of the first Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets have agreed that, without a doubt, we are experiencing in this book the opening noises of a poet who will make a great deal of important noise in the future."--from the foreword by Kwame Dawes, "The judges of the first Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets have agreed that, without a doubt, we are experiencing in this book the opening noises of a poet who will make a great deal of important noise in the future."-from the foreword by Kwame Dawes
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal821.92
Table Of ContentThe Cartographer of Water: A Foreword by Kwame Dawes Charcoal on Canvas A Slow Boat to China Satellite At the Confucius Centre 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 Demand Birds 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
SynopsisClifton 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 the most we can do is "collide against each other." Here light is graceful, and we glow like undiscovered galaxies and shifting matter. And here as well, we find new expression in a poetry that moves as we do., 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 the most we can do is "collide against each other." Here light is graceful, and we glow like undiscovered galaxies and shifting matter. And here as well, we find new expression in a poetry that moves as we do. Clifton Gachagua is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and translator based in Nairobi. His poetry has appeared in Saraba and Kwani? 06., 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.
LC Classification NumberPR9381.9.G226M33
