Kingdom of Gravity Makoha Nick
Kingdom of Gravity Makoha Nick As a child, Nick Mahoka fled Idi Amin's Uganda, and the poems in this collection relate to the horrors of the civil war that ousted the brutal tyranny of Amin. In…
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Kingdom of Gravity Makoha Nick
As a child, Nick Mahoka fled Idi Amin's Uganda, and the poems in this collection relate to the horrors of the civil war that ousted the brutal tyranny of Amin. In personal terms, the poems are framed between the contrary pulls of attachment and flight, exile and longing. In political terms the poems chart the impact of imperialism and neo-colonialism that lay behind those traumas in the life of the nation.
There is no presumption of innocence. At their heart is an unwavering curiosity about how people behave in extreme situations, and what this reveals about our common human capacities to indulge grandiose visions, betray them, dissemble, seek revenge and kill. There may be flight, but there is no standing aside.
The narrator can dream (but is it a dream?) of a "dead man/who has been stung by the invisible bee of my bullet".There is much darkness of reference in the
Gravity of Us
Kingdom of Gods
Phases of Gravity
Kingdom of Darkness
Kingdom of Dreams
Kingdom Of Shadows
Kingdom of Liars
Kingdom of Back
Kingdom of Ash
Kingdom of Bones
KINGDOM OF FORGIVENESS
Kingdom of Characters