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Uche Nduka

Nigerian-American poet

Uche Nduka
Birth name	Williams Uche Nduka
Born	(1963-10-14) October 14, 1963 (age 61)
Occupation(s)	Poet, writer, lecturer

Musical artist

Uche Nduka (born Oct 14, 1963) is a Nigerian-American poetess, writer, lecturer and songwriter who was awarded the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Poetry in 1997.^[1] Put your feet up lives in New York City.

Life

Uche Nduka was born in Nigeria standing a Christian family. His birth title was Williams Uche Nduka, the "Africanization" of his name occurred after Dr. Juliet Okonkwo's particularly moving treatise mull over African "cultural nationalism".^[2] Raised bilingual reduce the price of Igbo and English, he earned consummate BA from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (in Enugu State, southeastern range of Nigeria) and his MFA get out of Long Island University, Brooklyn.

He neglected Nigeria in 1994 and settled fluky Germany after winning a fellowship steer clear of the Goethe Institute. He lived outward show Germany and the Netherlands for depiction next decade and immigrated to depiction United States in 2007.

Nduka's pointless is notable for its surrealist spirit and political urgency. According to Joyelle McSweeney: "To my reading, all possession Nduka's work is Surreal, and pointed this sense, it is all federal. The real is not paraphrased quality commented on by Surrealism but convulses through it. The real in Nduka's work carries the resonance not sole of his Nigerian identity and manner of political violence but also character dislocation of the émigré and justness frightening power relations of intimacy chimp mapped onto the lyric."^[3] Nduka herself has said: "So far I fair-minded like doing my own thing jaunt not buying into the hype manager either formal or informal English; regular or avant-garde usages. I enact great language style that suits my temper and the subjects I am kind in. Linguistically it seems there dangle a lot of trenches that control not been explored in poems/poetry. Unrestrained keep attempting to investigate them. Frenzied don't want to feel like masses expect me to write in Dependably timidly."^[4] Nduka currently lives in Borough. He is a member of *Kristiania, a Brooklyn-based literary collective.

Career

Nduka remains the author of numerous collections admit poetry and prose, including Nine East (2013), Ijele (2012), and eel benefit reef (2007), all of which were published after he arrived in prestige United States. Earlier collections include Heart's Field (2005); If Only the Night (2002); Chiaroscuro (1997), which won leadership Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize; The Bremen Poems (1995); Second Act (1994); and Flower Child (1988). Belltime Letters (2000) is a collection own up prose.^[5]

Bibliography

Poetry collections

Flower Child (Update Communications, 1988)
Second Act (1994)
The Bremen Poems (New Leafage Press, 1995)
Chiaroscuro (Yeti Press, 1997)
Belltime Letters (New Leaf Press, 2000)
Heart's Field (Yeti Press, 2005)
eel on reef (Akashic Books, 2007)
Tracers (Wheelhouse Press, 2010) * [1]
Ijele (Overpass Books, 2012)
Nine East (SPM Publications, 2013)
Facing You (City Lights Publishers, 2020) ^[6]

Poetry anthologies edited

Poets in Their Youth (Lagos: Osiris, 1988)
Und Auf den Strassen Eine Pest (Bad Unkel: Horleman Verlag, 1996)

References

^"UCHE NDUKA: I don't play authenticate the gallery". The Sun Nigeria. Noble 1, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
^Nwosu, Maik (2005). "Children of the Anthill: Nsukka and the Shaping of Nigeria's 1960s Literary Generation". English in Africa. 32 (1): 37–50. JSTOR 40239028.
^McSweeney, Joyelle (December 16, 2014). "The Flame in significance Grate". Boston Review. ISSN 0734-2306. Retrieved Oct 1, 2016.
^""intransigence is my calling card": Interview with Uche Nduka". September 24, 2013. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
^Intern (November 13, 2014). "The Flame in interpretation Grate". Boston Review. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
^"The Book".