No Gods Live Here (eBook)

Poems

Conceição Lima (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
225 Seiten
Deep Vellum Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-64605-333-9 (ISBN)

Infos

WINNER OF THE 2021 WORDS WITHOUT BORDERSACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS POEMS IN TRANSLATION CONTESTNo Gods Live Here, the first book-length collection by a woman from So Tom to appear in English, is grounded in the lush islands' history of slavery, colonialism, and independence.A career-spanning collection from giant of Santomean poetry Conceio Lima, No Gods Live Here catalogues and memorializes the cruelties and triumphs of the country's past alongside the poet's own childhood poems set against the tiny island nation's distinctive flora and geography. Through vivid imagery, Lima evokes So Tom and Prncipe, from popular Santomean music to imagery of fishermen on the beach, while remaining ever aware of the subjective meeting of memory, time, and place.Through poetry, Lima unites past and present to resurrect hope in human creation and the possibility of metamorphosis.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.4.2024
• Übersetzer: Shook
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Schlagworte: poems, poetry, portuguese, portuguese literature, portuguese poetry, Conceição Lima, translation, conceicao lima, david shook, shook, translated, lusophone, lusophone poetry, lusophone literature, Santomean, Santomean poetry, Santomean literature, São Tomé and Príncipe, São Tomé, archipelago, translated poetry, african poetry, african literature, Black poetry, Black writers, Black women writers, feminist, feminism, post-colonial, post-colonial studies, colonialism, post-colonialism, west africa, bight of bi
• ISBN-10: 1-64605-333-8 / 1646053338
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64605-333-9 / 9781646053339