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The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper
Abdourahman A. Waberi
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Description for The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper
Hardback. Offers a collection of poetry, which takes you to unexpected spaces-in exile, in the muezzin's call, and where morning dew is "sucked up by the eye of the sun-black often, pink from time to time." These poems strongly condemn the civil wars that have plagued East Africa and advocate tolerance and peace. Translator(s): Carlson, Nancy Naomi. Series: The Africa List. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, which makes The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper all the more seductive. In his first collection of poetry, the critically acclaimed writer Abdourahman A. Waberi writes passionately about his country's landscape, drawing for us pictures of "desert furrows of fire" and a "yellow chameleon sky." Waberi's poems take us to unexpected spaces-in exile, in the muezzin's call, and where morning dew is "sucked up by the eye of the sun-black often, ... Read more
Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, which makes The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper all the more seductive. In his first collection of poetry, the critically acclaimed writer Abdourahman A. Waberi writes passionately about his country's landscape, drawing for us pictures of "desert furrows of fire" and a "yellow chameleon sky." Waberi's poems take us to unexpected spaces-in exile, in the muezzin's call, and where morning dew is "sucked up by the eye of the sun-black often, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Series
The Africa List
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857422385
SKU
V9780857422385
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About Abdourahman A. Waberi
Abdourahman A. Waberi is a novelist, essayist, poet, and professor of literature at George Washington University. He is the author of The Land without Shadows, In the United States of Africa, and Passage of Tears, the last also published by Seagull Books. Nancy Naomi Carlson is an award-winning author and translator.
Reviews for The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper
"With Waberi, the juxtapositions-surprising, provocative, and original-form a good part of the thrill themselves." (Words Without Borders)