Stray / Bernard Farai Matambo ; foreword by Kwame Dawes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matambo, Bernard Farai, author.

Contributor:

Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville, 1962- writer of foreword.

Series:

African poetry book series.

African Poetry Book Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (78 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, 2018.

Summary:

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Zimbabwean writer Bernard Farai Matambo's poems in Stray favor a prose-shaped line as they uncover the contradictory impulses in search of emotional and intellectual truth. Stray not only captures the essence of identity but also eloquently articulates the pain of displacement and speaks to the vulnerability of Africans who have left their native continent. This collection delicately examines the theme of migration-migration in a literal, geographic sense; migration oflanguage from one lexicon to another;migration of a poem toward prose-and the instability of the creativeexperience in the broader sense.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

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Preamble to Stray

All the Merry Hills

In the Name of the Tongue

In the Name of the Father

Holy Ghost

Catechism

Ota Benga Returns to the Congo

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You Don't Want the Light to Find Out What You've Done

Diallo

We Must Return

The Last Time I Saw Annamore Tsonga

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Preamble to Fever

The Cunning

It Came to Pass

A Town on the Frontier

Feasts for the Blind

Farther Inland

Far Country

My Dear Menshevik

As a Moonflower Curious of the Night

A Hunger

The City

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Preamble to In the Case Regarding My Brother

Requiem: In the Case Regarding My Brother

Mugarandega

In the Throat of the Heaven's Guide

Acknowledgments

Note.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496207814

1496207815

9781496207791

1496207793