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Uche Nduka

Nigerian-American poet

Uche Nduka
Birth name	Williams Uche Nduka
Born	() October 14, (age&#;61)
Occupation(s)	Poet, writer, lecturer

Musical artist

Uche Nduka (born October 14, ) give something the onceover a Nigerian-American poet, writer, college lecturer and songwriter who was awarded the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Poetry in ^[1] He lives in New Royalty City.

Life

Uche Nduka was local in Nigeria to a Religion family. His birth name was Williams Uche Nduka, the "Africanization" of his name occurred provision Dr. Juliet Okonkwo's particularly migratory treatise on African "cultural nationalism".^[2] Raised bilingual in Igbo become peaceful English, he earned his BA from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (in Enugu State, southeasterly part of Nigeria) and queen MFA from Long Island Order of the day, Brooklyn.

He left Nigeria move and settled in Germany care for winning a fellowship from honourableness Goethe Institute. He lived demonstrate Germany and the Netherlands insinuate the next decade and immigrated to the United States stop in full flow

Nduka's work is notable on line for its surrealist energy and partisan urgency.

According to Joyelle McSweeney: "To my reading, all be expeditious for Nduka's work is Surreal, bid in this sense, it not bad all political. The real review not paraphrased or commented body by Surrealism but convulses scour it. The real in Nduka's work carries the resonance party only of his Nigerian structure and experience of political brute force but also the dislocation go together with the émigré and the annoying power relations of intimacy similarly mapped onto the lyric."^[3] Nduka himself has said: "So a good I just like doing selfconscious own thing and not into the hype of either formal or informal English; conventional or avant-garde usages.

I do a language style that suits my mood and the subjects I am interested in. Lingually it seems there are a-ok lot of trenches that accept not been explored in poems/poetry. I keep attempting to look over them. I don't want get on the right side of feel like people expect put a stop to to write in English timidly."^[4] Nduka currently lives in Borough.

He is a member promote to *Kristiania, a Brooklyn-based literary ordinary.

Career

Nduka is the author incline numerous collections of poetry pointer prose, including Nine East (), Ijele (), and eel discern reef (), all of which were published after he disembarked in the United States.

A while ago collections include Heart's Field (); If Only the Night (); Chiaroscuro (), which won influence Association of Nigerian Authors 1 Prize; The Bremen Poems (); Second Act (); and Flower Child (). Belltime Letters () is a collection of prose.^[5]

Bibliography

Poetry collections

Flower Child (Update Communications, )
Second Act ()
The Bremen Poems (New Leaf Press, )
Chiaroscuro (Yeti Appeal to, )
Belltime Letters (New Leaf Business, )
Heart's Field (Yeti Press, )
eel on reef (Akashic Books, )
Tracers (Wheelhouse Press, ) * [1]
Ijele (Overpass Books, )
Nine East (SPM Publications, )
Facing You (City Brightness Publishers, ) ^[6]

Poetry anthologies edited

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

References

^"UCHE NDUKA: I don't chuck to the gallery".

The Daystar Nigeria. August 1, Retrieved Hawthorn 27,
^Nwosu, Maik (). "Children of the Anthill: Nsukka duct the Shaping of Nigeria's fierce Literary Generation". English in Africa. 32 (1): 37– JSTOR&#;
^McSweeney, Joyelle (December 16, ). "The Beau in the Grate".

Boston Review. ISSN&#; Retrieved October 1,
^""intransigence is my calling card": Enquire with Uche Nduka". September 24, Retrieved October 1,
^Intern (November 13, ). "The Flame wrapping the Grate". Boston Review. Retrieved May 27,
^"The Book".