FYI (with thanks to Charles Cantalupo)... DZO
Title: Who Needs a Story? Contemporary Eritrean Poetry in
Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic
Authors: Charles Cantalupo and Ghirmai Negash
Publisher: Hdri Publishers
Distributor: Small Press Distribution
178 Tegadelti Street 1341 Seventh Street
Box 1081 Berkeley, CA 94710-1409
Asmara, Eritrea 510-524-1668, 510-524-0852
+291-1-126177 (phone); +291-1-125630 (fax)
http://spdbooks.org/
ISBN: 99948-0-008-6
Pages: 139
Languages: English, Tigrinya, Tigre, Arabic
Price: $12.95
Copyright: 2005, Charles Cantalupo and Ghirmai Negash
Produced in two local and two world languages, the first anthology of
contemporary poetry from Eritrea ever published
* Presenting poems from three of Eritrea's major languages in their
original scripts of Ge'ez and Arabic
* Featuring poets who for the most part have never been translated and
have remained unknown outside of Eritrea
* Gathering in a single volume Eritrea's most accomplished
contemporary poets - including scholars, professional writers,
journalists, social scientists, cultural activists, teachers, actors,
theater directors and performers - most of whom learned their craft
and participated in the Eritrean war for independence
* Produced in Africa by a publisher making its first foray in the
international market through an American distributor
Africa's newest nation (1993) after a long and bitter struggle,
Eritrea is an ancient country with a tradition of writing going back
at least 4000 years. Located in the horn of Africa on the Red Sea,
half Christian and half Muslim and a former Italian colony, Eritrea
has nine nationalities, each with its own language. Implementing one
of the most enlightened language policies in Africa, Eritrea has no
official language but supports the use and development of all nine of
its languages with children attending primary school through fifth
grade in their mother tongue.
Penn State professor, Charles Cantalupo is the author Light the Lights
(2004) - "the most startling and revelatory encounter with the very
idea of Africa since Melvin B. Tolson" - two more books of
translations of Eritrean poetry, and the writer/director of the new
documentary, Against All Odds: African Languages and Literatures into
the 21st Century.
Ghirmai Negash is the founder and head of the Department of Eritrean
Languages and Literatures at the University of Asmara (Eritrea). He
is the author of A History of Tigrinya Literature in Eritrea (1999)
and Nay Deresti Naznet (The Freedom of the Writer, 2006). ***
For at least four thousand years - from the ancient stele in Belew
Kelew to the 20th-century battlefields of Eritrea's heroic struggle
for independence - and into the 21st century, Eritrean poets have
never given up writing in their own languages, which is why their
poetry thrives. WHO NEEDS A STORY? translates this remarkable legacy.
NGUGI WA THIONG'O
Crafted on the anvil of struggle, these poems testify to the
indomitable nature of the human spirit and the resilience of a culture
that has withstood decades of external repression and colonialism
engineered as much in Africa as in Europe. Experience in a single
volume the spirit of a nation pulsing through verse.
MBULELO MZAMANE
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