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Madman at Kilifi

Clifton Gachagua

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 03/2014
Pages: 76
Subject: Poetry
eBook ISBN: 9780803254442

DESCRIPTION

Clifton Gachagua’s collection Madman at Kilifi, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, concerns itself with the immediacy of cultures in flux, cybercommunication and the language of consumerism, polyglot politics and intrigue, sexual ambivalence and studied whimsy, and the mind of a sensitive, intelligent, and curious poet who stands in the midst of it all.   Gachagua’s is a world fully grounded in the postmodern Kenyan cultural cauldron, a world in which people speak with “satellite mouths,” with bodies that are “singing machines,” and in which the most we can do is “collide against each other.” Here light is graceful, and we glow like undiscovered galaxies and shifting matter. And here as well, we find new expression in a poetry that moves as we do.  

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Clifton Gachagua is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and translator based in Nairobi. His poetry has appeared in Saraba and Kwani? 06.  

REVIEWS

http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2014/02/20/african-poetry-book-fund-announces-three-releases-for-2014-including-kofi-awoonors-the-promise-of-hope/

“The judges of the first Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets have agreed that, without a doubt, we are experiencing in this book the opening noises of a poet who will make a great deal of important noise in the future.”—from the foreword by Kwame Dawes

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/lifestyle/article/2000108070/gachagua-young-poet-with-mature-vision

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