Ethiopia Boy (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford Poets
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2013
First published:	March 2013
Authors:	Chris Beckett
Dimensions:	141 x 221 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	64
ISBN-13:	978-1-906188-09-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	1-906188-09-2
Barcode:	9781906188092

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