Century Worm - Todd Fredson

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Résumé :
Century Worm confronts the impact of Western colonial policies and the sundering of nostalgia as the collection's speaker recalls living amid ethnic and political violence in West Africa's Ivory Coast. Drawing on human rights reports and personal experience, Century Worm wrestles with the ethical complexities of the lyric speaker. The poems concern themselves with the contours of belonging, with intimate relationship across distances, and with negotiating globalized subject positions.
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TODD FREDSON is also the author of the poetry collection The Crucifix-Blocks. He is a translator of Francophone West African literature, including the poetry collections by Josu? Gu?bo, Think of Lampedusa, and My country, tonight. Fredson was a 2015-16 Fulbright Scholar in the Ivory Coast, where he had also served in the Peace Corps from 2000-2002 as the country's ethnic violence was transitioning to civil war. He lives in Phoenix Arizona....