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Merrie Afrika!Adam Schwartzman![]()
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ISBN: 978 1 857543 11 7 Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Published: May 1997 215 x 135 x 5 mm 72 pages Publisher: Carcanet Press Spend GBP 15 or more and receive a free Carcanet tote bag.
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During which time, blacking out, the sky spits
a cob-full of molars, shakes and blusters with light, and shaking off blackets or whores the uncoffeed decend each old white-washed splinter-wood space through the gossip and hum of the air, in whose space belongs the sounds of everyone: he, the enterer, she, the forlorn, you the strictly unperturbed, me, the freshly undone. 'Dar Es Salaam'
Afrika! is an imaginary space, a 'k' and an exclamation mark away from the processes, histories and conflicts that this, Adam Schwartzman's second collection, takes for its subject. It is a space that is at once estranging and, with its wily appropriations, home ground for the citizen of the English language. Above all, in projecting 'the great out-there' into one fictive universe, Afrika! eschews personality and vigorously re-affirms community of descent, inheritance and association -- as the source of authority, both poetic and political.
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