Ethiopia Boy
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1906188092
ISBN-13
9781906188092
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint
OxfordPoets
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 28th, 2013
Print length
64 Pages
Weight
86 grams
Dimensions
14.10 x 22.10 x 0.50 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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The author grew up in 1960s Ethiopia, a country he describes as a 'barefoot empire, home of black-maned lions ...old priests decked out like butterflies and blazing young singers of Ethio-jazz'. This book plunges the reader into praise poems that sing and boast and glory in the colours and textures of this country.
Chris Beckett grew up in 1960s Ethiopia, a country he describes as a ‘barefoot empire, home of black-maned lions...old priests decked out like butterflies and blazing young singers of Ethio-jazz’. Ethiopia Boy plunges the reader into praise poems that sing and boast and glory in the colours and textures of this extraordinary country. Here is a world of feasting on spicy kikwot and of famine sucking the water from rivers, of lion buses and a prayer child, where Earth sings greetings to the feet that walk on her. Haunted by the memory of his friend Abebe, the cook’s son, Beckett celebrates and laments a lost boyhood in poems of vivid immediacy. COVER PAINTING Isao Miura, Crossing the Water (oil on canvas). Reproduced by kind permission of the artist.
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