Gestuary
by
Sylvie Kande
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
The Africa List
ISBN-10
180309608X
ISBN-13
9781803096087
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Imprint
Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 13th, 2026
Print length
112 Pages
Weight
184 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 15.90 x 1.00 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticismLiterature: history and criticism
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A richly imagined, physically charged poetry collection in which history, myth, and protest are transformed into lyrical gestures. Sylvie Kandé’s Gestuary offers a collection of gestures—of death and life, of tenderness and brutality—that fractures the flow of time. Senegalese riflemen from World War I are juxtaposed with migrants at borders who sew their lips shut in protest over immigration policies. In dream-like sequences, the dead refuse to stay underground and “push against the fence / that swings between our realm and theirs.” Inspired by unexpected sources, including jazz, sculpture, the legacy of the slave trade, proverbs, and elements of Diola culture, Kandé’s poems are rich in musicality and sophisticated syntax, rendered into a lyrical and luminous English by Nancy Naomi Carlson.
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