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Chris Beckett grew up in 1960s Ethiopia, a country he describes as a 'barefoot empire, home of black-maned lions ...old priests decked out like butterflies and blazing young singers of Ethio-jazz'. "Ethiopia Boy" plunges the reader into praise poems that sing and boast and glory in the colours and textures of this extraordinary country. Here is a world of feasting on spicy kikwot and of famine sucking the water from rivers, of lion buses and a prayer child, where Earth sings greetings to the feet that walk on her. Haunted by the memory of his friend Abebe, the cook's son, Beckett celebrates and laments a lost boyhood in poems of vivid immediacy. Cover painting: "Isao Miura", "Crossing the Water" (oil on canvas). Reproduced by kind permission of the artist.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Ethiopia Boy
• Author: Chris Beckett
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64
• EAN: 9781906188092
• ISBN: 1906188092
• ID: 01233837
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Weight: 86 g
• Dimensions: 141 × 221 × 5 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. February 2013

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