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Author Desimone, Arturo, author, illustrator

Title Ouafa and Thawra : about a lover from Tunisia : poetry, drawings, essay / Arturo Desimone ; edited by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka ; drawings by Arturo Desimone
Published Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe : Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, [2019]
[Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective

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Description 1 online resource (x, 101 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Summary Ouafa and Thawra is a nomadic collection: well-travelled and restless, but with roots firmly in revolutionary Tunisia, a tumultuous country "where people are sweet/ where even the hypocrisy is sweet." Arturo Desimone travels fearlessly between genres, too, with sketches deepening the reading experience and a postscript essay on Tunisia before and after the 'Arab Spring' adding context to the poems (and offering the controversial but sound claim that the Arab Spring was catalysed by the events of 2003 in Iraq). Desimone is wholly original: his poems simultaneously draw on a breathtaking, freewheeling sense of linguistic innovation, and on a timeless well of imagery and mythology. - Jacob Silkstone, managing editor of Asymptote journal, co-founder of The Missing Slate
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 17, 2019)
Subject Argentine literature (English) -- 21st century
Regional studies.
POETRY / African.
Argentine literature (English)
SUBJECT Tunisia -- Poetry
Subject Tunisia
Genre/Form poetry.
essays.
Essays
Poetry
Poetry.
Essays.
Poésie.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Mwanaka, Tendai R., editor
ISBN 1779064888
9781779064882
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