University of Nebraska Press

 

Authors

Mukoma Wa Ngugi

Date of this Version

2016

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© 2016 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska

http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Logotherapy,677251.aspx

Abstract

Written as a tribute to family, place, and bodily awareness, Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s poems speak of love, war, violence, language, immigration, and exile. From a baby girl’s penchant for her parents’ keys to a warrior’s hunt for words, Wa Ngugi’s poems move back and forth between the personal and the political. In the frozen tundra of Wisconsin, the biting winds of Boston, and the heat of Nairobi, Wa Ngugi is always mindful of his physical experience of the environment. Ultimately it is among multiple homes, nations, and identities that he finds an uneasy peace.

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