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By Josué Guébo,John Keene,Todd Fredson

ISBN-10: 149620042X

ISBN-13: 9781496200426

A selection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans trying to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an Italian island within the Mediterranean Sea. The crossing from North Africa to this island and different Mediterranean means stations has turn into the main risky migrant direction on the earth. attracted to what's generating such epic displacement, Josué Guébo’s poems combine elements of heritage and mythology.

Guébo considers the Mediterranean not just as a literal area but additionally as an area of expectation, nervousness, desire, and suffering for migrants. He meditates on the lengthy heritage of narratives and our bodies trafficked around the Mediterranean Sea. What did it—and what does it—connect and separate? Whose sea is it? eventually he's searching for what motivates somebody to develop into a part of what he calls a “seasonal suicide epidemic.”

This translation of Guébo’s Songe à Lampedusa, winner of the Tchicaya U Tam’si Prize for African Poetry, is a searing paintings from a major African poet.
 

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