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The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out To Drink From The Big Dipper

by Abdourahman Waberi Big
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780857422385
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: English Literature
  • Publisher: Seagull Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Seagull
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 96
  • Original Price: INR 495.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 227 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / French

About the Book Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, which makes The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper all the more seductive. In his first collection of poetry, the critically acclaimed writer Abdourahman A. Waberi writes passionately about his country's landscape, drawing for us pictures of "desert furrows of fire" and a "yellow chameleon sky." Waberi's poems take us to unexpected spaces--in exile, in the muezzin's call, and where morning dew is "sucked up by the eye of the sun--black often, pink from time to time."
Translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson, Waberi's voice is intelligent, at times ironic, and always appealing. His poems strongly condemn the civil wars that have plagued East Africa and advocate tolerance and peace. In this compact volume, such ideas live side by side as a rosary for the treasures of Timbuktu, destroyed by Islamic extremists, and a poem dedicated to Edmond Jab s, the Jewish writer and poet born in Cairo.

"With Waberi, the juxtapositions--surprising, provocative, and original--form a good part of the thrill themselves."-- Words Without Borders

Carlson, Nancy Naomi: - Nancy Naomi Carlson is a poet, translator, and essayist. She is the author of An Infusion of Violets. Her translation of Khal Torabully's Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude, published by Seagull Books, won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize in 2022.

Waberi, Abdourahman A.: - Abdourahman A. Waberi is a prize-winning novelist, essayist, and poet. He is professor of francophone literature at George Washington University. He is from Djibouti, and now lives in Washington, D.C.

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