Let Us Not Think of Them As Barbarians
Let Us Not Think of Them As Barbarians Peter Midgley's let us not think of them as barbarians is a bold narrative of love, migration, and war hewn from the stones of Namibia. Gradually, the poems…
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Let Us Not Think of Them As Barbarians
Peter Midgley's let us not think of them as barbarians is a bold narrative of love, migration, and war hewn from the stones of Namibia. Gradually, the poems assemble an ombindi--an ancestral cairn--from a history of violent disruption. Sensual and intimate, these evocative poems fold into each other to renew and undermine multiple poetic traditions.
Even as the poems look to the past, they push the reader towards a future that is as relevant to contemporary Canada as it is to the Namibian earth that bled Underlying the intense language is an exploration of African philosophy and its potential for changing our view of the world.