Songs My Country Taught Me

Download or read book Songs My Country Taught Me written by John Eppel and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2005 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If the form of my poetry is thoroughly European, its content is thoroughly African.' Thus the author introduces this collection of some eighty of his poems written between the late 1950s and the present: from the settler period through the civil war, to independence and neo- colonialism. The poems explore the contradictions and creative possibilities of an identity that is at once native and white, European and African. The voice is varyingly satirical, confessional, outraged and affectionate. "These poems have nothing to do with white nostalgia for the colonial period. On the contrary, they circle round [the author's] attempt both to embrace a past and wean himself from it."