Echo The Giant

Moshumee Dewoo

Description

"From 'Ode to Harry' to 'Black on White Screams, Dewoo's poems ripple along psycho-cultural dimensions, where the terseness of her language rumbles, her epigraphic-like renditions compel, and the topicality of her themes flickers as the profane and the sacred roar for and against each other in profound dis-enclosure. She writes for her freedom, but also, for humanity's."

HASSAN MBIYDZENYUY YOSIMBOM, Interdisciplinary Literature Scholar

 "Echo the Giant is a poignant exploration of memories that linger, summoning the present and entrapping it in a state of stasis. The entire collection extends an invitation to ponder these memories along recurring motifs such as fear, dissolution, grief and embodiment, guiding one toward a reconciliation with the very pain of existence. Dewoo's poetry confronts its most formidable challenge as follows: The past materialises through images of panic, melancholy, sorrow and obscurity, seamlessly merging into unstable entities and provocatively unveiling the syntax of incapacity - an unrelenting companion to the weight of anguish against the articulation of femininity that resounds as a profound plea for freedom, regardless of the cost."

AHMET SAIT AKCAY, Literary Critic, Research Fellow at the Institute for Humanities in Africa, HUMA, University of Cape Town

 Echo the Giant marks the fifth chapter of Moshumee T. Dewoo's poetic odyssey. It is a journey into a world where memories pulse with life, emotions cascade like melodies, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and words become the prism refracting the light of our shared brokenness or our vulnerability after pain and internal battles against this - echoes and giants rummaging through body, mind and soul in search of peace.

Sujets

• African
• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 30 septembre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789956553303
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

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Echo The Giant Moshumee T. Dewoo

L a ng a a R esea rch & P u blishing CIG Mankon, Bamenda

Publisher: LangaaRPCIG Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group P.O. Box 902 Mankon Bamenda North West Region Cameroon [e-mail] www.langaa-rpcig.net Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective [e-mail] www.africanbookscollective.com

ISBN-10: 9956-553-06-9

ISBN-13: 978-9956-553-06-8 ©Moshumee T. Dewoo 2023 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or be stored in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher

Table of Contents

Preface .................................................................. v Ode to Harry ............................................................... 1 Meditations of a Donkey ............................................. 2 Future Thoughts ......................................................... 3 Paz ............................................................................... 4 Bloodflood ................................................................... 5 House of Guilt ............................................................. 6 The End....................................................................... 7 I Am Not a Hero ......................................................... 8 Storm and Thunder ..................................................... 9 Frontier ........................................................................ 10 Picasso......................................................................... 11 Go Girl ......................................................................... 12 Road 54 ........................................................................ 13 Wisdom, I guess .......................................................... 14 A Warlock Show .......................................................... 15 City on a Violin............................................................ 16 Winds........................................................................... 17 Roll the Dice................................................................ 18 Gamble ........................................................................ 19 Yours Sincerely ............................................................ 20 Vertigo Rules ............................................................... 21 Eternity ........................................................................ 22 Come High Water ....................................................... 23 Classic.......................................................................... 24 Love Blooms in May.................................................... 25 Bad Porno.................................................................... 26 Toss Game................................................................... 27 Corpus ......................................................................... 28 Plastic .......................................................................... 29 Dame Guerra ............................................................... 30 I Repeated Myself ....................................................... 31 I Leave Today.............................................................. 32 Second Chance ............................................................ 33

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Tethered ...................................................................... 34 Too Soon ..................................................................... 35 Red Dragon ................................................................. 36 Alt_Yet ......................................................................... 37 Car Crash ..................................................................... 38 Gallows ........................................................................ 39 Fool’s Paradise ............................................................ 40 Translation .................................................................. 41 Black on White Screams.............................................. 42

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