Research Catalog

Title

Hands washing water / Chris Abani.

Author

Abani, Chris

Publication

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2006.

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Description

viii, 83 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

From the cover. Chris Abani was imprisoned, tortured, and sentenced to death for his literary activities. After fleeing Nigeria he continued to write poetry and fiction. Hands Washing Water is Abani's fourth poetry collection, a book of subversive humor, exile, and ancestry that expands beyond personal history to envision a greater compassion. "If there's nothing at risk," Abani once said in an interview, "it cannot be art."

Subject

• Poetry
• Poetry as Topic
• Nigeria > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Auckland 5 -- Antwerp 9 -- Durban, South Africa -- Some Notations of Value 11 -- Hanging in Egypt with Breyten Breytenbach 13 -- Letter to the Editor 18 -- A Way to Turn This to Light 21 -- Refugees 23 -- Harare 24 -- Walcott 28 -- Buffalo Women 31 -- Hands Washing Water 53 -- Fire 54 -- Lacan 55 -- The New Religion 56 -- The Measure of Sorrow 57 -- Aphasia 58 -- The Old Artist Speaks to the Young Poet 59 -- from There Are No Names For Red 60 -- Coleman 62 -- Low-down Dirty Blues 63 -- Foucault's Funk 64 -- Morning Yet 65 -- Ode to a Rag 66 -- Letter to the President 67 -- Say Something about Child's Play 68 -- Ouija Board 69 -- War Widow 70 -- Skin 71 -- Muir Woods 72 -- A Warrior's Pride 73 -- Howl 75 -- Secrets 76 -- The Cleft in the Infinite 77 -- How We Come to Name 78 -- Unfinished Symphony 79.

ISBN

• 1556592477 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781556592478

LCCN

^^2006013303

OCLC

• 67392900
• SCSB-11889128

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library