Bibliograph

Refractive Africa, ballet of the forgotten, Will Alexander

Type

Label

Refractive Africa, ballet of the forgotten, Will Alexander

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Refractive Africa

Oclc number

1233266185

Responsibility statement

Will Alexander

Series statement

New Directions paperbook, (NDP1515)

Sub title

ballet of the forgotten

Summary

""The poet is endemic with life itself," Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. "This being the ballet of the forgotten," he writes as diasporic witness, "of refracted boundary points as venom." The volume's opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo-two writers whose luminous art suffered "colonial wrath through refraction." A tribute to the Congo forms the bridge and brisé vole of the book: the Congo as "charged aural colony" and "primal interconnection," a "subliminal psychic force" with a colonial and postcolonial history dominated by the Occident. Will Alexander's improvisatory cosmicity pushes poetic language to the point of most resistance-incantatory and swirling with magical laterality and recovery"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Based on the bush of ghosts -- The Congo -- Eruption from the compound of living

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