BLANKETS OF SAND: Poems of War and Exile Current Affairs Readers will encounter selections written

Readers will encounter selections written by everyone from farmers

Publisher : University of Arkansas Press

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and a symbol of modern Africans' struggle against military dictatorship

knows she ll never get out of Kentucky but when her fingers touch the piano keys

BLANKETS OF SAND: Poems of War and Exile Current Affairs Readers will encounter selections writtenStruggle has delivered a new and independent country to the world, Eritrea, and struggle has delivered a new and independent poet, Ararat Iyob. Blankets of Sand: Poetry of War and Exile is direct yet lyrical testimony to the social and political experience of a wide range of individual women, children and men in Eritrea and its diaspora, including the poet herself." Charles Cantalupo, Editor, The World of Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Texts