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  1. Stray truths
    selected poems of Euphrase Kezilahabi
    Contributor: Drury, Annmarie (Publisher)
    Published: 2015; © 2015
    Publisher:  Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, Michigan

    Location:
    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Drury, Annmarie (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781611861822; 9781609174699; 9781628952414; 9781628962413
    Series: African Humanities and the Arts
    Other subjects: Kezilahabi, Euphrase
    Scope: 1 online resource (143 pages)
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  2. Stray truths
    selected poems of Euphrase Kezilahab
    Author: Kezilahabi, Euphrase
    Published: [2015]
    Publisher:  Michigan State University Press, East Lansing

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Drury, Annmarie (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781609174699; 1609174690; 1611861829; 9781611861822
    Series: African humanities and the arts
    Subjects: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African; Swahili poetry; Swahili poetry
    Other subjects: Kezilahabi, Euphrase; Kezilahabi, Euphrase
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    Includes bibliographical references

    Stray Truths is a stirring introduction to the poetry of Euphrase Kezilahabi, one of Africa's major living authors, published here for the first time in English. Born in 1944 on Ukerewe Island in Tanzania (then the Territory of Tanganyika), Kezilahabi came of age in the newly independent nation. His poetry confronts the task of postcolonial nation building and its conundrums, and explores personal loss in parallel with nationwide disappointments. Kezilahabi sparked controversy when he published his first poetry collection in 1974, introducing free verse into Swahili. His next two volumes of poetry (published in 1988 and 2008) confirmed his status as a pioneering and modernizing literary force. Stray Truths draws on each of those landmark collections, allowing readers to encounter the myriad forms and themes significant to this poet over a span of more than three decades. Even as these poems jettison the constraints of traditional Swahili forms, their use of metaphor connects them to traditional Swahili poetics, and their representational strategies link them to indigenous African arts more broadly. To date, translations of Swahili poetry have been focused on scholarly interpretations. This literary translation, in contrast, invites a wide audience of readers to appreciate the verbal art of this seminal modernist writer