The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn
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Publication
2018-09-01 - University of Nebraska Press
Language
English
Word Count
24,000 words, Guess
Page Count
96 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-101496211855
- ISBN-139781496211859
- Library of Congress Control Number2018006596
- OCLC Control Number1043755750
- OCLC Control Number1027728960
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781496211859
- Open LibraryOL28293078M
Classifications
- LCCPQ3989.2.B6263A9513
- LCCPQ3989.2.B6263 A9513 2018eb
- LCCPQ3989.2.B6263 A9513 2018
Description
Tanella Boni is a major African poet, and this book, The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn, is her first full collection to be translated into English. These poems wrestle with the ethnic violence and civil war that dominated life in West Africa's Ivory Coast in the first decade of the new millennium. Boni maps these events onto a mythic topography where people live among their ancestors and are subject to the whims of the powerful, who are at once magical and all too petty. The elements--the sun, the wind, the water--are animated as independent forces, beyond simile or metaphor. Words, too, are elemental, and the poet is present in the landscape--"during these times / I searched for the letters / for the perfect word." Boni affirms her desire for hope in the face of ethno-cultural and state violence although she acknowledges that desiring hope and hoping are not the same--back cover.
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