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ETHIOPIA BOY
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| By: |
Chris Beckett |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£9.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1906188092 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781906188092 |
| Publisher: |
CARCANET PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
28 February, 2013 |
| Pages: |
64 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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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UK |
| Imprint: |
OxfordPoets |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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