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Sylvie Kandé's neo-epic in three cantos is a double narrative combining today's tales of African migration to Europe on the one hand, with the legend of Abubakar II on the other: Abubakar, emperor of 14th-Century Mali, sailed West toward the new world, never to return. Kandé's language deftly weaves a dialogue between these two narratives and between the epic traditions of the globe. Dazzling in its scope, the poem swings between epic stylization, griot storytelling, and colloquial banter, capturing an astonishing range of human experience. Kandé makes of the migrant a new hero, a future hero whose destiny has not yet taken shape, whose stories are still waiting to be told in their fullness and grandeur: the neverending quest has only just begun. Country folk who made themselves belated mariners their bodies cadence them to cleave with the oar's tainted tip the purple mounds of the great salt savannah which no furrow marks where no seed takes root (But to say the sea earthly words are little suited) At the point of the dream they were a myriad no less and no more to cross the coral barrier in laughter with its vermilion flowers: there remain but three barks adrift full so full to the point of capsizing
SYLVIE KANDÉ (New York, NY) is an award-winning poet and scholar. She is the author of three poetic collections published by Gallimard. Gestuaire (poèmes), published in 2016, was short-listed for the Prix Kowalski des Lycéens, and received the Prix Louise Labé in 2017. Having launched the program of Francophone studies at NYU, she now teaches as an Africanist in the SUNY system. ALEXANDER DICKOW (Blacksburg, VA) is a poet, translator, and scholar, and an associate professor of French at Virginia Tech. His books include Trial Balloons and Appetites.
Dedication: To Joseph Ki-Zerbo . Epigraphs . Prologue . Canto I Shipwreck Canto II Seven Manners of Denouement . Canto III Alassane/Ulysses' Ruse
