Kumukanda /

By: Chingonyi, Kayombo [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Chatto & Windus, 2017Description: 52 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781784741396; 1784741396Uniform titles: Works. Selections. 2017. Subject(s): Initiation rites -- PoetryGenre/Form: Poetry.
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.