Chris Beckett

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Ethiopia BoyPaperback, 1 March 2013

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Part of Series
Oxford Poets
Print Length
64 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Carcanet Press
Date Published
1 Mar 2013
ISBN-10
1906188092
ISBN-13
9781906188092

Description

Chris Beckett grew up in 1960s Ethiopia, a country he describes as a 'barefoot empire, home of black-maned lions...old priests decked out like butterflies and blazing young singers of Ethio-jazz'. Ethiopia Boy plunges the reader into praise poems that sing and boast and glory in the colours and textures of this extraordinary country. Here is a world of feasting on spicy kikwot and of famine sucking the water from rivers, of lion buses and a prayer child, where Earth sings greetings to the feet that walk on her.
Haunted by the memory of his friend Abebe, the cook's son, Beckett celebrates and laments a lost boyhood in poems of vivid immediacy.
COVER PAINTING Isao Miura, Crossing the Water (oil on canvas). Reproduced by kind permission of the artist.

Product Details

Author:
Chris Beckett
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
1 March 2013
Dimensions:
21.08 x 13.21 x 0.76 cm
Genre:
African
ISBN-10:
1906188092
ISBN-13:
9781906188092
Language:
English
Pages:
64
Publisher:
Weight:
90.72 gm

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