We Invented the Wheel - Softcover

Haile, Reesom; Cantalupo, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569021635 ISBN 13: 9781569021637

Publisher: Africa World Pr, 2002

Synopsis

This is the second bilingual collection of the poetry of the contemporary Eritrean poet, Reesom Haile. It follows an earlier anthology, We Have our Voice, which was published in 2000. Haile is widely recognized for his revolutionary modernization of the traditional art of poetry in Tigrinya, one of Eritrea’s main languages. The enormous popular appeal of his poetry–in print and on the Internet—has spilled into the streets of Asmara, where to stroll with Reesom Haile at any hour of the day is to be approached by the young and old—and people who are delighted to quote his lines back to him. Writing in Tigrinya, he joins a growing movement of African authors who are writing in their own languages.

Charles Cantalupo works directly with Reesom Haile to offer versions of Haile’s work which attempts to join two languages and two traditions in a common effort of poetry that is modern yet classical, epigrammatic, and enduring.

About this title

About the Author

Reesom Haile is a poet and scholar who returned to Eritrea after a twenty-year exile. During his exile, he taught Communications at The New School for Research in New York and had a subsequent career as a Development Communications Consultant, working with UN agencies, governments, and NGOs around the world. The first collection of his poems in Tigrinya, Waza Qumneger Ntnsae Hager won the 1998 Raimok prize, Eritrea s highest award for literature. His second collection in Tigrinya is Bahlna Bahbana (Our Culture Our Pleasure).

Edition details

• Publisher: Africa World Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1569021635
• ISBN 13: 9781569021637
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 243