Abdourahman A. Waberi

Broschiertes Buch

When We Only Have the Earth

Beschreibung

In these moving poems French Djiboutian writer Abdourahman A. Waberi urges us to look for the truth and beauty hidden in our daily lives and exhorts us to join him in the collective fight to save our planet from destruction.

Autor

Abdourahman A. Waberi is a poet, novelist, and essayist. He was born in what is now known as the Republic of Djibouti and is a major voice in African postcolonial studies. Waberi is the author of the novel In the United States of Africa (Bison Books, 2009) and has received a multitude of awards and honors, including a PEN France prize and, most recently, a medal from the French Academy. He is an associate professor of French at George Washington University. Nancy Naomi Carlson is a poet, translator, and essayist. She is the recipient of two translation grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the winner of the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She is the author or translator of fifteen books, including her poetry collection Piano in the Dark and her translation of Samira Negrouche’s poetry collection Solio.

Produktdetails

• African Poetry Book
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 138g
• ISBN-13: 9781496241351
• ISBN-10: 1496241355
• Artikelnr.: 71244471