Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing, Zimbabwe
Poetry, Drawings, Essay
“Ouafa and Thawra is a nomadic collection: well-travelled and
restless, but with roots firmly in revolutionary Tunisia, a tumultuous
country “where people are sweet/ where even the hypocrisy is sweet.”
Arturo Desimone travels fearlessly between genres, too, with sketches
deepening the reading experience and a postscript essay on Tunisia
before and after the ‘Arab Spring’ adding context to the poems (and
offering the controversial but sound claim that the Arab Spring was
catalysed by the events of 2003 in Iraq). Desimone is wholly original:
his poems simultaneously draw on a breathtaking, freewheeling sense of
linguistic innovation, and on a timeless well of imagery and mythology.” – Jacob Silkstone, managing editor of Asymptote journal, co-founder of The Missing Slate
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About the author
Arturo Desimone, Arubian-Argentinian writer and visual artist, was born
in 1984 on the island Aruba which he inhabited until the age of 22, when
he emigrated to the Netherlands. He relocated to Argentina while
working on a long project about his Argentinean family background.
Desimone’s articles, poetry and fiction pieces have previously appeared
in CounterPunch, Island. Círculo de Poesía (Spanish) Sydney Review of
Books, Moko, The Missing Slate, Al Araby Al Jadeed (in Arabic
translation) and New Orleans Review. He writes a blog about Latin
American poetry for the Ex-Drunken Boat poetry review and performed in
poetry festivals in Nicaragua, Cuba, Belgium and Argentina. He
previously published the poetry collections Letters to Karl Marx/
Cartas a Carlos Marx *(2015) with Hanan Harawi, a publisher in Peru,
and Poems of the Costa Nostra, Mare Nostrum (2019, publisher
Hesterglock Protes(x)t, UK)
Related books
Best “New” African Poets 2017 Anthology
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