Ejo: Poems - Brossura

Burleson, Derick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0299170241 ISBN 13: 9780299170240

Casa editrice: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 2000

Riassunto

In 1994 the worst episode of genocide since the Holocaust of the Second World War ravaged the Central African country of Rwanda. Derick Burleson lived there and taught at the National University during the two years leading up to the genocide. The poems in this collection explore the cataclysm in a variety of forms and voices through the culture, myths, and customs he absorbed during this time.Ejo, meaning "yesterday and tomorrow" in Kinyarwandan, celebrates in language both lyrical and austere the lives of the friends Burleson made in Rwanda, those who survived to tell their own stories, and those whose voices were silenced.

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L'autore:

Derick Burleson and his wife Anita Leverich lived in Rwanda from 1991 to 1993 where they taught English at the National University. A recipient of a 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Burleson is currently completing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing  at the University of Houston.

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Book by Burleson Derick

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0299170241
• ISBN 13: 9780299170240
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 68
• Redattore: Wallace Ronald