African Poetry Book

Written as a tribute to family, place, and bodily awareness, Mukoma Wa Ngugis poems speak of love, war, violence, language, immigration, and exile. From a baby girls penchant for her parents keys to a warriors hunt for words, Wa Ngugis poems move back and forth between the personal and the political. In the frozen tundra of Wisconsin, the biting winds of Boston, and the heat of Nairobi, Wa Ngugi is always mindful of his physical experience of the environment. Ultimately it is among multiple homes, nations, and identities that he finds an uneasy peace.