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Songs My Country Taught Me

- Collected Poems 1965-2005

About Songs My Country Taught Me

'If the form of my poetry is thoroughly European, its content is thoroughly African.' Thus the author introduces this collection of some eighty of his poems written between the late 1950s and the present: from the settler period through the civil war, to independence and neo- colonialism. The poems explore the contradictions and creative possibilities of an identity that is at once native and white, European and African. The voice is varyingly satirical, confessional, outraged and affectionate.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781779220387
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 148
  • Published:
  • June 14, 2005
  • Dimensions:
  • 140x216x9 mm.
Delivery: 1-2 weeks
Expected delivery: December 7, 2024

Description of Songs My Country Taught Me

'If the form of my poetry is thoroughly European, its content is thoroughly African.' Thus the author introduces this collection of some eighty of his poems written between the late 1950s and the present: from the settler period through the civil war, to independence and neo- colonialism. The poems explore the contradictions and creative possibilities of an identity that is at once native and white, European and African. The voice is varyingly satirical, confessional, outraged and affectionate.

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