5/29/2023 The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper by Abdourahman A. WaberiRead Now![]() ![]() “With Waberi, the juxtapositions-surprising, provocative, and original-form a good part of the thrill themselves. ![]() In this compact volume, such ideas live side by side as a rosary for the treasures of Timbuktu, destroyed by Islamic extremists, and a poem dedicated to Edmond Jabès, the Jewish writer and poet born in Cairo. His poems strongly condemn the civil wars that have plagued East Africa and advocate tolerance and peace. Translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson, Waberi’s voice is intelligent, at times ironic, and always appealing. Waberi writes passionately about his country’s landscape, drawing for us pictures of “desert furrows of fire” and a “yellow chameleon sky.” Waberi’s poems take us to unexpected spaces-in exile, in the muezzin’s call, and where morning dew is “sucked up by the eye of the sun-black often, pink from time to time.” In his first collection of poetry, the critically acclaimed writer Abdourahman A. Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, which makes The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper all the more seductive. Abdourahman Waberi is a prize-winning writer from Djibouti whose work has been translated into a multitude of languages. ![]()
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