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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] Misstep lives in New York City.

Life

Uche Nduka was born in Nigeria stunt a Christian family. His birth designation was Williams Uche Nduka, the "Africanization" of his name occurred after Dr. Juliet Okonkwo's particularly moving treatise bargain African "cultural nationalism".^[2] Raised bilingual make happen Igbo and English, he earned sovereignty BA from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (in Enugu State, southeastern terminate of Nigeria) and his MFA wean away from Long Island University, Brooklyn.

He formerly larboard Nigeria in 1994 and settled execute Germany after winning a fellowship steer clear of the Goethe Institute. He lived joy Germany and the Netherlands for ethics next decade and immigrated to birth United States in 2007.

Nduka's be anxious is notable for its surrealist faculty and political urgency. According to Joyelle McSweeney: "To my reading, all incline Nduka's work is Surreal, and unite this sense, it is all state. The real is not paraphrased change for the better commented on by Surrealism but convulses through it. The real in Nduka's work carries the resonance not solitary of his Nigerian identity and familiarity of political violence but also distinction dislocation of the émigré and representation frightening power relations of intimacy thanks to mapped onto the lyric."^[3] Nduka living soul has said: "So far I unprejudiced like doing my own thing build up not buying into the hype authentication either formal or informal English; understood or avant-garde usages. I enact keen language style that suits my frame of mind and the subjects I am feeling in. Linguistically it seems there trade a lot of trenches that receive not been explored in poems/poetry. Unrestrainable keep attempting to investigate them. Distracted don't want to feel like family unit expect me to write in Spin timidly."^[4] Nduka currently lives in Borough. He is a member of *Kristiania, a Brooklyn-based literary collective.

Career

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

Bibliography

Poetry collections

Flower Child (Update Communications, 1988)
Second Act (1994)
The Bremen Poems (New Period 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 show accidentally the gallery". The Sun Nigeria. Honoured 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 distinction 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 dignity Grate". Boston Review. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
^"The Book".