MASKSONG FOR OUR TIMES Gifts and punishment

and punishment

at the Institute Ibero Americano

and cultural change who are grappling with the same questions

ISBN-10 : 0982503091

In this moving volume of poetry

MASKSONG FOR OUR TIMES Gifts and punishmentMasksong for our Times is a collection of poetry composed mainly in the masquerade idiom, which is characterized by song and chants, satirical comments and divinatory prophecies. As a central figure of the African traditional world, the masquerade speaks with the voice of an ancestral spirit, evoking the authority to say what everyone else avoids saying and the license to articulate hard, uncomfortable truths about society. By drawing upon age old