Songs We Learn from Trees: An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic PoetryAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 28 May 2020
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The first ever anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit and heartache of this beautiful country.
This is the very first anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit and heartache of a beautiful country and language. From folk and religious poems, warrior boasts, praises of women and kings and modern plumbing; through a flowering of literary poets in the twentieth century; right up to thirty of the most exciting contemporary Amharic poets working both inside and outside the country. These poems ask what it means to be Ethiopian today, part of a young fast-growing economy, heirs to the one African state which was never colonised, but beset by deep political, ethnic and moral problems.
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