dove / Chris Kirubi's WILDPLASSEN is a finely-wrought debut collection. The weather surrounds, as subjectivity is carefully interrogated through typographic gesture and image. Thinking with Sembéne, Glissant, Nourbese Philip and others, we are ushered into a space of translation and study reflecting on dispossession, native informants and racial categorisation. "Wildplassen" is a legal term for public urination in which wildness is invoked as an inappropriate occupation of public (urban) space. This collection transfigures the borders of air, city and landscape; language, lyric and page with instability and waywardness.
| ISBN: | 9781068644603 |
| Publication date: | 12th October 2024 |
| Author: | dove Chris Kirubi |
| Publisher: | the87press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 73 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets Gender studies: ‘trans’, transgender people and gender variance LGBTQ+ Studies / topics African philosophy Translation and interpretation Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Photography and photographs |