[AfricanLanguages] Fw: Hulring Words - New Book of poetry

[Don Osborn]

FYI, forwarding this interesting announcement on behalf of Mukoma...    DZO     Hurling Words at Consciousness by Mukoma Wa Ngugi Africa World Press, July 2006 www.amazon.com $14.95   Book Description (from back cover) "By turns soothingly tender or implacably harsh, Hurling Words at Consciousness is an unflinching meditation on our globalized inequities. It is thoughtful and richly rewarding." --Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Mukoma wa Ngugi is a poet of extraordinary expressive gifts. This impressive volume casts a critical yet forgiving eye on closely-observed episodes from life in the United States, with knowing glances towards poets as diverse as Le'opold Se'dar Senghor and Matthew Arnold. The social concerns of an African poet in sympathy with political struggles throughout the Third World here jostle up against and defamiliarize the details of North American everyday life, which then suddenly take on new significance."   Nicholas Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago   "While treating the reader to an expansive range of themes - death, war, life, love, nature, human relationships/encounters, personal reflections, art, politics, history, social justice, revolution and others – Mukoma wa Ngugi also succeeds in making a deeply profound, artistic statement. He decorates his intensely reflective utterance with a lacework of images, metaphors and other forms of figurative _expression_ that reveal a keen artist at his craft. With this first volume of poetry, Mukoma wa Ngugi has clearly entered the world of published poets in style!"   Micere Mugo Githae, Syracuse University   "Like his late mentors, Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney, Mukoma is a catalyst, a circuit board, a generator. Through his writings and activism, he expresses the idea within which many will think change, the dream within which many will envision change, and the hope within which many will imagine change." --Meredith Terreta, LeMoyne College   About the Author Kenyan poet Mukoma wa Ngugi is the author of Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change (KPH, 2003) and the forthcoming A Malignant History: Looking at America (KPH, 2007). His poems and political essays have been published widely. He is the coordinator for the Toward an Africa without Borders Organization.    Also see his column on Africa and Latin America in BBC’s Focus on Africa Magazine (July-August, 2006).  He will be writing regular columns that relate Africa to the rest of the world for the quarterly magazine.       __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Creative writing Creative writing course Creative writing program Creative writing class Teaching creative writing YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "AfricanLanguages" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___