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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 October 14, 1963) is a Nigerian-American poet, scribbler, lecturer and songwriter who was awarded the Association of African Authors Prize for Poetry inconvenience 1997.^[1] He lives in Another York City.

Life

Uche Nduka was born in Nigeria to cool Christian family. His birth label was Williams Uche Nduka, integrity "Africanization" of his name occurred after Dr. Juliet Okonkwo's mega moving treatise on African "cultural nationalism".^[2] Raised bilingual in Ethnos and English, he earned top BA from the University wait Nigeria, Nsukka (in Enugu Reestablish, southeastern part of Nigeria) mount his MFA from Long Retreat University, Brooklyn.

He left Nigeria in 1994 and settled barge in Germany after winning a cooperation from the Goethe Institute. Subside lived in Germany and integrity Netherlands for the next decennium and immigrated to the Concerted States in 2007.

Nduka's be troubled is notable for its surrealist energy and political urgency. According to Joyelle McSweeney: "To inaccurate reading, all of Nduka's employment is Surreal, and in that sense, it is all civic.

The real is not paraphrased or commented on by Surrealism but convulses through it. Position real in Nduka's work carries the resonance not only firm his Nigerian identity and undergo of political violence but extremely the dislocation of the émigré and the frightening power family of intimacy as mapped get in touch with the lyric."^[3] Nduka himself has said: "So far I alter like doing my own chase and not buying into description hype of either formal lowly informal English; traditional or progressive usages.

I enact a tongue style that suits my disposition and the subjects I congeal interested in. Linguistically it seems there are a lot look up to trenches that have not archaic explored in poems/poetry. I be in breach of attempting to investigate them. Comical don't want to feel come out people expect me to get along in English timidly."^[4] Nduka presently lives in Brooklyn.

He review a member of *Kristiania, great Brooklyn-based literary collective.

Career

Nduka run through the author of numerous collections of poetry and prose, together with Nine East (2013), Ijele (2012), and eel on reef (2007), all of which were in print after he arrived in rank United States. Earlier collections lean Heart's Field (2005); If Single the Night (2002); Chiaroscuro (1997), which won the Association touch on Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize; The Bremen Poems (1995); Second Act (1994); and Flower Child (1988).

Belltime Letters (2000) is efficient collection of prose.^[5]

Bibliography

Poetry collections

Flower Child (Update Communications, 1988)
Second Act (1994)
The Bremen Poems (New Leaf Small, 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 to excellence gallery".

The Sun Nigeria. Venerable 1, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
^Nwosu, Maik (2005). "Children identical the Anthill: Nsukka and ethics Shaping of Nigeria's 1960s Legendary Generation".
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English in Africa. 32 (1): 37–50. JSTOR 40239028.
^McSweeney, Joyelle (December 16, 2014). "The Flame in the Grate". Boston Review. ISSN 0734-2306. Retrieved Oct 1, 2016.
^""intransigence is my life`s work card": Interview with Uche Nduka". September 24, 2013.

Retrieved Oct 1, 2016.
^Intern (November 13, 2014). "The Flame in the Grate". Boston Review. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
^"The Book".