Songs we Learn From Trees (Amharic Poets
Author(s): MITCHELL, CHRIS
This is the very first anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit, and heartache of a beautiful country and language. From folk and religious poems, warrior boasts, praises of women and kings and modern plumbing; through a flowering of literary poets in the twentieth century; right up to thirty of the most exciting contemporary Amharic poets working both inside and outside the country. These poems ask what it means to be Ethiopian today, part of a young, fast-growing economy, heirs to the one African state which was never colonised, but beset by deep political, ethnic, and moral problems.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Carcanet Press, Limited
- : Carcanet Press, Limited
- : 0.36741
- : 28 May 2020
- : .9 Inches X 5.5 Inches X 8.5 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : MITCHELL, CHRIS
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 892.87108
- : 304