Chingonyi, Kayombo,
Kumukanda / Kayo Chingonyi. - 52 pages ; 22 cm.
Poems.
Machine generated contents note: The Colour of James Brown's Scream -- Self-Portrait as a Garage Emcee -- Fisherman's Song -- Broomhall -- Winter Song -- Guide to Proper Mixtape Assembly -- The Room -- Some Bright Elegance -- Calling a spade a spade -- The N Word -- Alterity -- The Cricket Test -- The Conservatoire System -- On Reading ̀Colloquy in Black Rock' -- Varsity Blues -- Casting -- Callbacks -- Normative Ethics -- Curfew -- 25 October, 1964 -- Legerdemain -- How to Build Cathedrals -- Waves -- Malumbo -- Orientation -- How to Cry -- Loch Long by Ardgartan, Argyll -- Kumukanda -- H-O-R-S-E -- Alternate Take -- A Proud Blemish -- Orphan Song -- Grief -- The Nod -- In Defence of Darkness -- Andrews Corner -- Martins Corner -- Kung'anda -- 'Round Midnight -- Baltic Mill -- This poem contains gull song -- For those orphaned late in life.
Translating as 'initiation', kumukanda is the name given to the rites a young boy from the Luvale tribe must pass through before he is considered a man. In this book, the poems explore this passage: between two worlds, ancestral and contemporary; between the living and the dead; between the gulf of who he is and how he is perceived.
9781784741396 1784741396
2017431375
GBB762227 bnb
Initiation rites--Poetry.
Poetry.
Kumukanda / Kayo Chingonyi. - 52 pages ; 22 cm.
Poems.
Machine generated contents note: The Colour of James Brown's Scream -- Self-Portrait as a Garage Emcee -- Fisherman's Song -- Broomhall -- Winter Song -- Guide to Proper Mixtape Assembly -- The Room -- Some Bright Elegance -- Calling a spade a spade -- The N Word -- Alterity -- The Cricket Test -- The Conservatoire System -- On Reading ̀Colloquy in Black Rock' -- Varsity Blues -- Casting -- Callbacks -- Normative Ethics -- Curfew -- 25 October, 1964 -- Legerdemain -- How to Build Cathedrals -- Waves -- Malumbo -- Orientation -- How to Cry -- Loch Long by Ardgartan, Argyll -- Kumukanda -- H-O-R-S-E -- Alternate Take -- A Proud Blemish -- Orphan Song -- Grief -- The Nod -- In Defence of Darkness -- Andrews Corner -- Martins Corner -- Kung'anda -- 'Round Midnight -- Baltic Mill -- This poem contains gull song -- For those orphaned late in life.
Translating as 'initiation', kumukanda is the name given to the rites a young boy from the Luvale tribe must pass through before he is considered a man. In this book, the poems explore this passage: between two worlds, ancestral and contemporary; between the living and the dead; between the gulf of who he is and how he is perceived.
9781784741396 1784741396
2017431375
GBB762227 bnb
Initiation rites--Poetry.
Poetry.