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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
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: January 2016
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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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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
compellingus to return

itwas the breezes that were there
&then not there

itwas the sun that rose & fell
rose& fell

as ifthere was nothing different
as if nothing changed

 
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