Best "New" African Poets 2016 Anthology Contributor(s): Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos (Editor), Purificação, Daniel Da (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9956764892 ISBN-13: 9789956764891 Publisher: Langaa RPCID OUR PRICE: $41.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | African - Poetry | African |
Series: Best "New" African Poets |
Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6" W x 9" (1.15 lbs) 436 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology has 251 pieces from 131 poets and artists in 7 languages (English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, Shona, Yoruba and Kiswahili) from 24 African countries and Diasporas, with South African and Angolan poets dominating the list. We also have a healthy number of poets from Uganda, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Mo ambique, Ghana, and Nigeria, as usual. The nationalist sense is the one that most predominates with its pink, blue and gray tints that are expressed in parallel with existentialist perspectives that in turn go hand in hand with love, desire, hankering, joy, sensuality that transports us to epic, lyrical, utopian contexts without being lost in fantasy, they are artistic lines sometimes with traditional and sometimes more innovative touches. However, in contrast and to a lesser extent, almost as if there were resistant and with restraint we also find desolation, pain, negation that can be so sweet or so bitter that it allows the imagination to stop in a lament or end in resignation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Purificacao, Daniel Da: - Daniel da Purificacao, was born in 1983 in some place called Angola.Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos: - Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. |