I got pretty flattened with workplace obligations for a few days and I'm
just catching up to all this.
Judy,
I'm glad the piece seems to reflect the fun I had writing it.
Desmond,
Very kind of you. If I'm the new voice, I guess we'll need to be handing
out a good number of new earplugs on compassionate grounds. I checked out
Susan's Weblog, and I'm looking forward to more in her World Literature
series. I must say, though, that I have no truck with Nollywood films.
There's only so much bluster and bathos I can take. I do hope one day you
get to see proper Nigerian, theatrical drama which is generally excellent.
Just a few days ago Esiaba Irobi died, who I remember very well from my
Nsukka days, and especially for his intense play, Nwokedi, which would make
a great script for the (slowly) emerging, more cerebral Nollywood.
--Uche
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Desmond Swords
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> Judy
>
>
> http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/uogbuji/2009/06/tongue-of-warcraft-part-one%E2%80%94taboo-words/
>
> ... you mean this one?
>
> Well, why not say so by leaving a link?
>
> You look very foolish speaking of things we can only guess at, M-fum-fum,
> Prince; this is a total disgrace and appallingly non-rich-white-European way
> of doing business in Letters.
>
> How dare you claim the English langauge as your own and be better in it
> than the Highnesses.
>
> Insolent Prince. I will be complaining about your anti-intellectual
> anti-civilization self, to the appropriate Authority.
>
> MYSELF!!!!
>
> ~
>
> Take no notce Judy.
>
> I read Tongue of Warcraft, Part One—Taboo Words, and had the same reaction
> as you. Bleddy brillant!!!
>
> Uche is the first Nigerian poet I have read online who makes me understand
> just how limitless this language is; and along with yourself, made my
> weekend of Learning very memorable, bcuz both of you write neologisms that
> do not need any supporting waffle; like Burts go at the New (Harvard) Thing
> last fall: unconscious p'raps of how narrow a circle and pedestrian his
> thinking was circuiting.
>
> America needs the New Voice and it's gotta come out of Cambridge Harvard
> Oxford or Princeton; never Sucha College Nowheresville - always gotta have
> the eremenos exiting via a titan erastes, suck-up 'n say-nice teams of
> perfectly jolly folks as exciting to read and witness; as tender upset
> luvvies wiv a bwoken pwuppy.
>
> Uche's poet-vice comes across as new-yet ancient; who he really is; a local
> Igbo intellect and sensibility, serving to prove the universal; that we are
> all, regardless of what culture we're from; the same in the head.
>
> His take on the influence of American movies and the possibilities for
> innocent cultural slips and trips in translation from his culture to
> American culture was very enlightening and thanks Uche; you are bleddy
> brilliant mate.
>
> ~
>
> My Malaysian wife, Susan Abraham, whose parents are Indian; is mad on
> Nigerian movies, and before we moved apartments, had a satelite with a few
> Nollywood chanels on it, and I would never have encountered these if it
> weren't for Sue.
>
> I call her a woman of international glamour; because she started out as a
> fashion journalist and then went into travel writing; and she is off in two
> weeks for her third attempt up Kilimanjaro. Both times she's come down in an
> ambulance after failing to reach the peak.
>
> The last time was at Xmas; when there was unseasonably cold weather. She is
> also mad on Tanzanian fiction and writes book reviews, of world fiction,
> with a specialized interest in Arab and SE Asian stuff. She lives for her
> bookshops and travel and is totally with her head in the clouds; so we make
> a great pair of little kids, babbling away in our baby talk, two middle aged
> dreamers without issue; no one to leave behind to tell the world how great
> we are but in love with life for all that, still.
>
> This is her site. She's had lots of blogs and just got this typepad and is
> still to transfer her old stuff over.
>
> http://susanabraham-booksblog.typepad.com/susan_abraham/archives.html
>
> M-fum-fum
>
> bloody great stuff Uche and Judy.
>
> sta bards.
>
> graw aggus sheo-kawn
>
> grá agus síocháin
>
> Love and peace
>
> ~
>
> Poetry Police
>
> Letts Bay Avenue
>
>
>
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