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    Toil and Delivery
    Toil and Delivery
    Toil and Delivery
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    Toil and Delivery

    By F. Ndi

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    Bill NDI s Toil and Delivery can be as playful and loaded as the clues in a cryptic crossword puzzle, which is to say that they are marked by a strange, energetic hybridity. They occupy a dynamic space between nursery rhyme and visionary Romantic verse, between the colloquial and the archaic, between postmodernity and anachronism. They are local and global, political and personal, Western and non-Western. With experiences traversing both Africa and the West, Bill F. NDI is one of those poets who gives meaning to the word globalisation. He embraces poetry as a material act in a troubled world, with poetry s power conveyed with typical irony.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLangaa RPCIG
    Release dateNov 1, 2010
    ISBN9789956579259
    Toil and Delivery
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    F. Ndi

    Bill F Ndi, traducteur-traductologue, poète, dramaturge, conteur, critique littéraire, et enseignant-chercheur est né à Bamunka-Ndop, au Southern Cameroons. Docteur ès Langues, Littératures et Civilisations Contemporaines : Traduction à l'UCP, il a enseigné dans plusieurs universités (en Australie, en France...) et présentement, il est professeur des universités américaines à Tuskegee University dans l'Alabama. Il compte nombreuses publications (en français et en anglais) en poésie, pièces de théâtre, traduction ainsi que sur le Quakerisme originel.

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