Ejo: Poems, Rwanda, 1991-1994 (Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry)
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Ejo: Poems, Rwanda, 1991-1994 (Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry)
Book Details
- Author
- Derick Burleson
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- United States
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780299170240
- ISBN-10
- 0299170241
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ISBN: 0299170241
Author: Burleson, Derick
Condition: New
In 1994 the worst episode of genocide since the Holocaust of the Second World War ravaged the Central African country of Rwanda. Derick Burleson lived there and taught at the National University during the two years leading up to the genocide. The poems in this collection explore the cataclysm in a variety of forms and voices through the culture, myths, and customs he absorbed during this time. Ejo, meaning "yesterday and tomorrow" in Kinyarwandan, celebrates in language both lyrical and austere the lives of the friends Burleson made in Rwanda, those who survived to tell their own stories, and those whose voices were silenced.
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Ejo: Poems, Rwanda, 1991-1994 (Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry)
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