100 Days Contributor(s): Okot Bitek, Juliane (Author), Nicholson, Cecily (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1772121215 ISBN-13: 9781772121216 Publisher: University of Alberta Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: January 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | African |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2015298378 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.2" W x 8.9" L (0.40 lbs) 120 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - Canadian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: 100 days... 100 days that should not have been... 100 days the world could have stopped. But did not. For 100 days, Juliane Okot Bitek recorded the lingering nightmare of the Rwandan genocide in a poem--each poem recalling the senseless loss of life and of innocence. Okot Bitek draws on her own family's experience of displacement under the regime of Idi Amin, pulling in fragments of the poetic traditions she encounters along the way: the Ugandan Acholi oral tradition of her father--the poet Okot p'Bitek; Anglican hymns; the rhythms and sounds of the African American Spiritual tradition; and the beat of spoken word and hip-hop. 100 Days is a collection of poetry that will stop you in your tracks. Itwas the earth that betrayed us first itwas the earth that held onto its beauty &then not thereitwas the sun that rose & fell rose& fellas ifthere was nothing different as if nothing changed |
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