War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry focuses on Eritrean
written poetry from roughly the last three decades of the twentieth
century. The poems appear in the anthology Who Needs a Story?
Contemporary Eritrean Poetry in Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic from
which a selection is offered here in their original scripts of
Ge'ez or Arabic, and in English translation. Who Needs a Story? is
the first anthology of contemporary poetry from Eritrea ever
published, and War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry is the
first book on the subject. Therefore, the groundbreaking effort of
the former warrants a discussion of its means of cultural
production. All of the poets in Who Needs a Story? participated in
the Eritrean struggle for independence (1961-91) as freedom
fighters and/or as supporters in the Eritrean diaspora. Thus,
contemporary Eritrean poetry divides itself between experiences of
war and peace, although one can contain the other as well. War and
Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry also includes an extended
analysis of one of Eritrea's most famous contemporary poets Reesom
Haile, as an example of the kind of extended analysis that many of
the poets of Who Needs a Story? should stimulate and, last but not
least, a meditation on how the author, a non-native speaker,
personally becomes involved in Eritrean poetry translation.
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