Kalakuta Republic
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.50 (978 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0863563228 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 116 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Michael Carroll said I've been reading the work of Chris Abani for some. I've been reading the work of Chris Abani for some time now. The heartfelt small poetry book about pain, violence and forgiveness truly resonates with me. First heard of him on KPFK in Los Angeles when he did a radio interview and read some pieces from "Kalakuta Republic" and have beena follower of his work since that time. Thanks Chris Abani.. A Stunning Achievement A Customer This book is a stunning achievement. I went from poem to poem in amazement at this writers ability to capture those moments of horror he endured as a political prisoner and transform them. Like Yeats said "a terrible beauty is born"This is a splendid example of the poetry of witness and I think it belongs in the company of Akhmatova's Requiem. When she was asked "Can you describe all this/and I said I can".That is what this writer did, with words of power and grace, that will linger in anyone's head. It is fortunate to come upon them.The poems on London fill. Dark Light Abani's book left me speechless. At the horror. The pain and the inhumanity of other people.It also left me speechless with regard to myself. It reminded me of what is important in life and how important it is, at whatever level, to do the right thing, no matter how difficult.The poet's tale of incaceration for his writing in Nigeria's old regimes is a humbling one. It is also an inspiring one. No other book in the last ten years has moved me as much.The poems are beautifully balanced pieces with a clear narrative. The Language, while simple, achieves a comp
This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria’s military regime in the late 1980s.
Reading, I found myself in tears.' --Sunday Tribune 'Abani's poems are the most naked, harrowing expression of prison life and political torture imaginable. Reading them is like being singed by a red hot iron.' --Harold Pinter 'Abani's survival instinct and his poems contain moments of grace, humanity and humor.' --Susannah Tarbush, Diwaniya'Abani's poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength, survival and tyranny.' --Pride'Chris has emerged with poems that are graceful pieces of art, almost ready to be hung in a gallery for others to come and enter them and rest in them and weep in them and admire them.' --Kwame Dawes, professor of English literature, University of Columbia, South Carolina, USA. 'A beautiful work of art elevates art and humanity above meanness and inhumanity.' --World