Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
eel on reef
In eel on reef, Uche Nduka challenges every expectation of an African poet. His unique voice is a heady amalgam of Christopher Okigbo, A.R. Ammons, John Ashbery, Kamau Brathwaite, and that which only Nduka can bring. Uche Nduka was born and raised in Nigeria. His published books include Flower Child, Second Act, and Chiraoscuro (winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize in 1997). He lives in Bremen, Germany.
Ijele
None
Living in Public
Poetry. In Nduka's LIVING IN PUBLIC, the spheres of daily living, history, politics and love are not separated. In this book the sensual is sacred. The poetry is both understated and confrontational. Complacency is anathema to this long poem that passionately unfolds in an exploratory stylistic ambience. LIVING IN PUBLIC riffs on aesthetic and erotic sprightliness. This volume of poetry centers anger, joy and visionary intensity.
Facing You
From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. "The real in Nduka's work carries the resonance not only of his Nigerian identity and experience of political violence but also the dislocation of the émigré and the frightening power relations of intimacy as mapped onto the lyric."--Joyelle McSweeney, Boston Review Facing You is a collection of love lyrics, as well as an exploration of what goes into making the public and private self, from acclaimed Nigerian American poet Uche Nduka. Passionate and erotic,Facing Younonetheless resists being hermetically sealed within the relationship, and is subject to the intrusions of "the dubious world": war, exile, protest, and police violence intrude but cannot defeat Nduka's expressions of desire, where reality and surreality are one. "These poems were written openly and freely about my vision and experience," he writes, "crossing the wires of sex and prophecy."
Scissorwork
"There is a rhythmic rapidity to Uche Nduka's SCISSORWORK, the work of relentlessly cutting at the barrage of sensory data coming at us, leaving the syntax between dense blocks of text and epigrammatic and occasionally even whimsical poems, like paper shapes falling to the ground. And yet, peeking through these poles are hints of a world on fire, of people on the run or attempting defiance, of a restless figure moving through it to salvage an image, the remembrance of a scent, the delight of a touch."--Ammiel Alcalay Poetry. African & African American Studies.
The Bremen Poems
None
Nine East
Nine East is an assured, mesmerising and fun book of poetry in which every breath of love and life is captured in organic music. Uche Nduka - poet, essayist, songwriter, collagist - is ranked among the most innovative writers of his generation. His books include Flower Child (1988), Second Act (1994), The Bremen Poems (1995/99), Chiaroscuro (1997), If Only The Night (2002), Heart's Field (2005), eel on reef (2007), Tracers: e-book(2010), Ijele (2012). Belltime Letters (2000) is his first prose book. Some of his writings have been translated into German, Serbo-Croatian, Dutch, Romanian, Spanish, Finnish. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Bainbridge Island Notebook
Uche Nduka returns with an explosive new collections of poems based on the Pacific Northwest during the covid pandemic. Sheltering with his wife and child on Washington State's Bainbridge Island during a global pandemic, the poet as political surrealist considers themes of isolation and connection in the most personal terms using his unique brand of explosive abstraction to carve out a space to explore the meaning of home, family, and diaspora. "In BAINBRIDGE ISLAND NOTEBOOK, the measure of pleasure is found in the social fact of song. Sparkling with erotic charges and moral conundrums, Uche Nduka's detonates novelty in the name of love. His short lines create the rhythmic force of news that William Carlos Williams celebrated. This is poetry new, brave, and boisterous."--Charles Bernstein Poetry. Family & Relationships. African & African American Studies.
Second Act
None
Flower Child
None
