{"product_id":"future-has-an-appointment-with-the-dawn-paperback","title":"Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTanella Boni\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTodd Fredson\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eHonoree Fanonne Jeffers\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTanella Boni is a major African poet, and this book, \u003cem\u003eThe Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e, is her first full collection to be translated into English. These poems wrestle with the ethnic violence and civil war that dominated life in West Africa's Ivory Coast in the first decade of the new millennium. Boni maps these events onto a mythic topography where people live among their ancestors and are subject to the whims of the powerful, who are at once magical and all too petty. The elements--the sun, the wind, the water--are animated as independent forces, beyond simile or metaphor. Words, too, are elemental, and the poet is present in the landscape--\"during these times \/ I searched for the letters \/ for the perfect word.\" Boni affirms her desire for hope in the face of ethno-cultural and state violence although she acknowledges that desiring to hope and hoping are not the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTanella Boni \u003c\/b\u003eis an Ivorian poet, novelist, and professor of philosophy at the University Félix Houphouët-Boigny, formerly the University of Abidjan (Cocody). She has published numerous critical and literary works in French and won many literary awards, including the 2009 Antonio Viccaro International Poetry Prize from UNESCO for her body of work. \u003cb\u003eTodd Fredson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eThe Crucifix-Blocks\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCentury Worm\u003c\/i\u003e and has translated two poetry collections by Josué Guébo, including \u003ci\u003eThink of Lampedusa\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2017). \u003cb\u003eHonorée Fanonne Jeffers\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gospel of Barbecue\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42716873195583,"sku":"9781496211859","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/4812f4b0d3a0257180b89a6d59e46495.webp?v=1765076484","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/future-has-an-appointment-with-the-dawn-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}